Field Activity 2018-023-FA

Identifier 2018-023-FA
Purpose Monitor coastal erosion, test ability to map grain size using UAS.
Location Sandwich Town Neck Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States, Atlantic Ocean
Info derived Map coastal morphology, texture, and vegetation. Hand samples and photos to ground-truth UAS data.
Comments Placeholder for one or two days in field. UAS mapping at Sandwich with regular and oblique photos, extra GCPs, and lots of transect points. May also include sediment sampling and Land-BOSS (to be developed).
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Sandwich, MA 2018-09-05
End Sandwich, MA 2018-09-07
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -70.50235748
East -70.45971749
North 41.77704062
South 41.75584443

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Christopher R Sherwood
Crew members
(not identified)
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Ellyn Montgomery
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Sampling
Data type: Photo, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Quadrats, digital under/above water camera Photo (no data reported)
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Photo, Video, Navigation (no data reported)
Sample containers Biology, Geology (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity