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

Field Activity 2016-700-FA

Identifier 2016-700-FA
Alternate names 20160415_Shoalwater
Purpose To collect aerial imagery to document coastal processes - experimental flight to test Elwha PlaneCam on Columbia River work that USGS was performing. Additional funding from USGS, not sure the funding source
Location Shoalwater, WA, Washington Coast, Columbia Drift Cell
Summary collected 3378 primarily near-nadir images.
Info derived Per flight: orthoimagery and elevation models (approximately 10cm resolution), recording sediment, wood, water, and vegetation.
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-688-FA.
Projects
Platform
Airplane
Itinerary
Start Port Angeles, WA 2016-04-15
End Port Angeles, WA 2016-04-15
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -124.23339844
East -123.92852783
North 46.98025236
South 46.27673288

Personnel

Organization
National Park Service(NPS)
multiple locations
Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Andrew C Ritchie
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Andrew C Ritchie
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Jonathan Warrick, USGS; Amy East, USGS; Andrew Stevens, USGS; Josh Logan, USGS

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery
Data type: Photo

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Structure from Motion - crewed aircraft Photo (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity