Field Activity 2017-304-FA

Identifier 2017-304-FA
Purpose On going post-Sandy beach recovery assessment
Location Fire Island, NY
Summary Successfully collected D-GPS positional data (xyz) at 15 cross-shore beach profile locations, 4 alongshore beach transects, and east and west Fire Island Breach shorelines. Set up base station at Robins Rest to post-process data. Utilized Jake's IMU.
Info derived Beach Elevation
Comments Funding Account: GXMN00GGH0200
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Vehicles
Rental Vehicle
Itinerary
Start Fire Island, NY 2017-01-24
End Fire Island, NY 2017-01-27
Days in the field 3
Bounds
West -73.34472671
East -72.85692749
North 40.73932344
South 40.61537598

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Jennifer L Miselis
Crew members
Owen T Brenner
Scientist, Staff
Kathleen E Wilson
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Owen T Brenner
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Erika Lentz: USGS-Woods Hole

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation
Data type: Navigation, Profiles

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
F190 DGPS/IMU used IMU on 2m GPS pole/wheel and on POlaris mounted GPS pole. Navigation (no data reported)
Ashtech ProFlex 500 GNSS Receiver collected 15 cross shore profiles, 2 breach shorelines and 4 alongshore elevation transects Benchmarks, Navigation 3
GPS Pole Collected elevation data along 15 cross shore beach profiles(wheel&pole), 4 alongshore beach transits(polaris mounted pole), and 2 Wilderness Breach shorelines(wheel&pole). Used IMU for all surveys Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)

Datasets


Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Profile_Data Ashtech ProFlex 500 GNSS Receiver Cross-shore profile data Owen T Brenner
Shoreline_Data Ashtech ProFlex 500 GNSS Receiver MHW shoreline data Owen T Brenner
Breach_Shorelines_Data Ashtech ProFlex 500 GNSS Receiver Breach shoreline data Owen T Brenner

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity