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

Field Activity 08LGC01

Identifier 08LGC01
Purpose To acquire ground control data for LIDAR mapping.
Location Chandeleur Islands, LA
Summary Established 5 temporary control points tied to Mark, using differential GPS. These control points were used as reference marks for station establishment of the total station. The total station was used to obtain ground elevations referenced to the WGS84 ellipsoid in six different ground cover environments including: bare earth; shallow water; emergent vegetation; tall vegetation; short vegetation and mangrove scrub. The beach buggy was additional roving GPS platform to obtain coverage over larger bare earth areas.
Info derived Ground Elevation and vegetation heights referenced to control point "Pt. Mark" on the Chandeleur Islands in various ground cover environments.
Projects
Platform
Unknown
Halimeda
Vehicles
Chevy Suburban Silver
Itinerary
Start Biloxi, MS 2008-09-05
End Biloxi, MS 2008-09-08
Bounds
West -89.0977
East -88.39455004
North 30.12157116
South 29.58777403
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Sallenger, Abby
Crew members
Billy J Reynolds
Scientist, Staff
Keith A Ludwig
Scientist, Staff
Nancy T DeWitt
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Billy J Reynolds
Specialist, Information
Kara S Doran
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation
Data type: Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Benchmarks, Navigation (no data reported)
Choke Ring Antenna Benchmarks, Navigation (no data expected)
Geodometer 640 Total Station Navigation (no data reported)
GPS topographic survey buggy Benchmarks, Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
Tripods Mooring (physical oceanography), Benchmarks, Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity