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    "tag": 19135,
    "title": "USGS CoastCam CACO-02 at Marconi Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts (2021, 2023, 2024): Calibration Data",
    "pubdate": "20250513",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "doi:10.5066\/P17OF3UP",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/SB_data_release\/DR_P17OF3UP\/CACO02_calibration_metadata.faq.html",
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    "descript": "Two digital video cameras were installed at Marconi Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO) in Massachusetts (MA) as part of a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research project to study the beach and nearshore environment. The cameras faced north\/north-east (c1) and north-east\/east (c2) along the beach and collected images for 17 minutes at 2Hz every half hour during daylight hours. They ran daily from March through June 2021, February through July 2023 and January through September 2024; the cameras collected raw images and produced snapshots and time-averaged image products. This data release includes the necessary intrinsic orientation (IO) and extrinsic orientation (EO) calibration data to utilize imagery to make quantitative measurements. USGS researchers analyzed the imagery collected from this camera to remotely sense a range of information including shoreline position, sandbar migration, wave run-up on the beach, alongshore currents, and nearshore bathymetry. These cameras are part of the USGS CoastCam network, supported by the Total Water Level\/Coastal Change Project under the Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program (CMHRP). To learn more about this specific camera site visit https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/centers\/whcmsc\/science\/using-video-imagery-study-marconi-beach.",
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Lange, Athina M.Z.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Over, Jin-Si R.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Sherwood, Christopher R.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
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            "code": "1799",
            "name": "coastal processes",
            "scope": "Processes unique to coastal areas including longshore transport, beach erosion, storm surge, shoreline change, delta formation, barrier island migration, beach stabilization by vegetation"
        },
        {
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            "code": "316",
            "name": "ecosystem management",
            "scope": "Means of controlling or directing human practices, species populations, and physical environment within an ecosystem to achieve a selected state of sustainability."
        },
        {
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            "name": "field methods",
            "scope": "Research procedures and instrumental means to measure, collect data and samples, and observe in the natural areas where the materials, phenomena, structures, or species being studied occur."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "468",
            "name": "geomorphology",
            "scope": "Branch of geology dealing with surface land features and the processes that create and change them."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "574",
            "name": "image analysis",
            "scope": "Pattern analysis of the shapes and textures of images to identify features and derive information about them."
        },
        {
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            "code": "575",
            "name": "image collections",
            "scope": "Visible representations of objects or earth properties produced by cameras, spectral instruments, or as graphical representations of measurements."
        },
        {
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            "code": "818",
            "name": "ocean sciences",
            "scope": "Sciences involved in the study of geological, biological, chemical, and physical characteristics and processes of the oceans."
        },
        {
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            "code": "1672",
            "name": "optical methods",
            "scope": "Measurement of light transmission or reflectance in the field to estimate, for example, the density of suspended sediment in water bodies."
        },
        {
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            "code": "889",
            "name": "photography",
            "scope": "Process of using digital or film cameras to collect images of objects."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "981",
            "name": "remote sensing",
            "scope": "Acquiring information about a natural feature or phenomenon, such as the Earth's surface, without actually being in contact with it. USGS remote sensing is usually carried out with airborne or spaceborne sensors or cameras."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1273",
            "name": "video monitoring",
            "scope": "Field study employing the use of filming or repeated photography with stationary optical or digital cameras to observe changes in a feature or organism."
        },
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            "code": "008",
            "name": "geoscientificInformation",
            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        }
    ],
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            "code": "fUS",
            "name": "United States",
            "scope": "country",
            "pname": "North America"
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        {
            "thcode": 1,
            "code": "h01090002",
            "name": "Cape Cod",
            "scope": "hydrologic unit",
            "pname": "Massachusetts-Rhode Island Coastal"
        },
        {
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            "code": "q41102NEC2",
            "name": "Wellfleet",
            "scope": "map quadrangle, 7.5 minute",
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        {
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            "name": "Massachusetts",
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            "pname": "United States"
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    "image": [
        {
            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/67a4c0c3d34e63325c2b79fa?name=CACO02_calibration_browse.jpg",
            "description": "Example calibration products including (top) c1 and c2 annotated GCP images from 20240612, (bottom left) example intrinsic calibration image and (bottom right) camera setup in the field."
        }
    ],
    "fan": [
        "2021-019-FA",
        "2021-022-FA",
        "2023-006-FA",
        "2024-002-FA"
    ]
}