Field Activity 09LTS01

Identifier 09LTS01
Alternate names EAARL/2009/Northeast Coastal
Purpose Obtain high-resolution topographic data in collaboration with NPS.
Location Fire Island, NY and Gateway, NJ
Summary LIDAR data acquisition in collaboration with NPS.
Info derived Sub-aerial topography, geo-reference digital camera imagery.
Platform
Airplane
Goby
Itinerary
Start Salisbury, MD 2009-07-08
End Salisbury, MD 2009-08-03
Bounds
West -75.6681633
East -72.44530678
North 41.12320256
South 38.45110171
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators C Wayne WrightNayegandhi, AmarBrock, John
Crew members
C Wayne Wright
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Nayegandhi, Amar
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation
Data type: Other Imagery, Photo, LIDAR, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) LIDAR 6
Digital Camera Photo, Video (no data reported)
GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera Other Imagery 1
Red Green Blue (RGB) Digital Camera Other Imagery (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Data Series 525 Bare-Earth Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) lidar-derived bare-earth (BE) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the Gateway National Recreation Area in New York and New Jersey Alexandra M Fredericks
Data Series 525 First-Surface Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) lidar-derived first-surface (FS) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the Gateway National Recreation Area in New York and New Jersey Alexandra M Fredericks
Data Series 565 Bare-Earth Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) lidar-derived bare-earth (BE) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the Fire Island National Seashore in New York Alexandra M Fredericks
Data Series 565 First-Surface Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) lidar-derived first-surface (FS) topography GIS datasets of a portion of the Fire Island National Seashore in New York Alexandra M Fredericks
Data Series 565 CIR Imagery Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera color-infrared (CIR) imagery of a portion of the Fire Island National Seashore in New York Emily S Klipp

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Lidar_Footprints_Merged Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Merged footprint of all lidar data published by the USGS SPCMSC since 2001 Breanna N Williams
Lidar_Footprints_Individual Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Individual footprints of lidar data published by the USGS SPCMSC since 2001 Breanna N Williams

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity