Ground control points Head of the Meadow Beach, Truro, MA on March 20, 2024

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Publication Date: 2024-05-30
Time Period: 2024-03-20

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Over, J.R., Sherwood, C.R., Traykovski, P.A., and Anderberg, M.M., 2024, Topographic and bathymetric data, imagery, and ground control data collected at Head of the Meadow Beach, Truro, Massachusetts in February and March 2024: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1N57AEG.

Summary

The data in this release re-map the beach and nearshore environment at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, MA and provide updated environmental context for the 2020 CoastCam installation that looks out at the coast shared by beachgoers, shorebirds, seals, and sharks. This is a collaboration with the National Park Service at Cape Cod National Seashore to monitor the region that falls within the field of view of CoastCam CACO-01, which are two video cameras aimed at the beach. In February and March 2024, U.S. Geological Survey and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists conducted field surveys to collect topographic and bathymetric data. Images of the beach for use in structure-from-motion were taken with a camera (SONY [...]

Summary

The data in this release re-map the beach and nearshore environment at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, MA and provide updated environmental context for the 2020 CoastCam installation that looks out at the coast shared by beachgoers, shorebirds, seals, and sharks. This is a collaboration with the National Park Service at Cape Cod National Seashore to monitor the region that falls within the field of view of CoastCam CACO-01, which are two video cameras aimed at the beach. In February and March 2024, U.S. Geological Survey and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists conducted field surveys to collect topographic and bathymetric data. Images of the beach for use in structure-from-motion were taken with a camera (SONY a6000) attached to a helium powered balloon-kite (Helikite). High-precision GPS targets (AeroPoints 2) were used as ground control points. Bathymetry was collected in the nearshore using a single-beam echosounder mounted on a surf capable self-righting electric autonomous surface vehicle. Agisoft Metashape (v. 2.1.0) was used to create a digital surface model and orthomosaic with the collected imagery.

Contacts

Point of Contact :: Jin-Si R Over
Originator :: Jin-Si R Over, Christopher R Sherwood, Peter Traykovski, Mira M Anderberg
Publisher :: U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Program :: Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program
Data Owner :: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
USGS Mission Area :: Natural Hazards
Distributor :: U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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CMHRP Field Activity Page	https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2024-011-FA
Head of the Meadow CoastCam	https://www.usgs.gov/centers/whcmsc/science/using-video-imagery-study-head-meadow-beach

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Francis, H. and Traykovski, P., 2021, Development of a highly portable unmanned surface vehicle for surf zone bathymetric surveying. Journal of Coastal Research, 37(5), p.933-945. https://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-20-00143.1	https://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-20-00143.1
Over, J.R., Ritchie, A.C., Kranenburg, C.J., Brown, J.A., Buscombe, D., Noble, T., Sherwood, C.R., Warrick, J.A., and Wernette, P.A., 2021, Processing coastal imagery with Agisoft Metashape Professional Edition, version 1.6—Structure from motion workflow documentation: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2021–1039, 46 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20211039.	https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20211039

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Ground control points for georeferencing the aerial imagery.

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