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

Field Activity 2018-022-FA

Identifier 2018-022-FA -- CANCELED
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 Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-019-FA
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Sandwich, MA 2018-04-23
End Sandwich, MA 2018-04-26
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
Seth Ackerman
Scientist, Staff
Elizabeth P Pendleton
Scientist, Staff
Ellyn Montgomery
Scientist, Staff
Christopher R Sherwood
Scientist, Staff
Jonathan Borden
Scientist, Staff
Sandra M Brosnahan
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