1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2016-328-FA

Identifier 2016-328-FA
Purpose To collect field observations of wave runup and beach morphology during storms.
Location Duck, NC, USA
Summary Collected video and terrestrial lidar data or wave runup and beach topography for a month.
Info derived wave runup, water levels, beach topography/bathymetry
Comments The equipment being used is property of USACE. The platform from which the equipment/observations are being collected is a telescoping tower, which will be set up in a parking lot near the beach.
Projects
Platform
Other
Vehicles
Rental Vehicle
Itinerary
Start Duck, NC 2016-03-28
End Duck, NC 2016-05-02
Bounds
West -75.7727
East -75.58059692
North 36.18111653
South 35.94942699

Personnel

Organization
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers(USACE)
Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Jennifer A Brown
Crew members
Jennifer A Brown
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Jennifer A Brown
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Kate Brodie (USACE) Nick Spore (USACE)

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation
Data type: Video, LIDAR, Profiles

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Video Camera Video (no data reported)
Other Unknown, Profiles, Transects, Benchmarks, LIDAR, Navigation (no data reported)
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) LIDAR (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity