Low-altitude aerial imagery obtained with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Spit, Nauset Inlet, and Nauset Marsh, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, Massachusetts on 1 March 2016 (JPEG images)

This dataset contains images obtained from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flown in the Cape Cod National Seashore. The objective of the field work was to evaluate the quality and cost of mapping from UAS images. Low-altitude (approximately 120 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from cameras in a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flown from the lawn adjacent to the Coast Guard Beach parking lot on 1 March, 2016. The UAV was a Skywalker X8 flying wing operated by Raptor Maps, Inc., contractors to the U.S. Geological Survey. U.S. Geological Survey technicians deployed and mapped 28 targets that appear in some of the images for use as ground control points. All activities were conducted according...

Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Coast Guard Beach, oceans, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, Eastham, All tags... Cape Cod, JPEG, USGS, CMGP, UAS, drone, Orleans, Nauset Inlet, Nauset Marsh, unmanned aerial system, aerial images, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Atlantic Ocean, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, field activity number 2016-007-FA, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags

CSV file of names, times, and locations of images collected by an unmanned aerial system (UAS) flying over Black Beach, Falmouth, Massachusetts on 18 March 2016

Imagery acquired with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and coupled with structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry can produce high-resolution topographic and visual reflectance datasets that rival or exceed lidar and orthoimagery. These new techniques are particularly useful for data collection of coastal systems, which requires high temporal and spatial resolution datasets. The U.S. Geological Survey worked in collaboration with members of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Analytics at Black Beach, in Falmouth, Massachusetts to explore scientific research demands on UAS technology for topographic and habitat mapping applications. This project explored the application of consumer-grade UAS platforms...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Buzzards Bay, Great Sippewissett Inlet, Great Sippewissett Marsh, DJI Phantom 3, Massachusetts, All tags... Barnstable, Cape Cod, USGS, CMGP, UAS, ground control point, drone, Black Beach, Falmouth, unmanned aerial system, aerial images, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, geospatial datasets, aerial photography, location, Atlantic Ocean, Airborne imagery, WHCMSC, field activity number 2016-010-FA, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, targets, Fewer tags

Low-altitude aerial imagery obtained with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over Black Beach, Falmouth, Massachusetts on 18 March 2016 (JPEG images)

Imagery acquired with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and coupled with structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry can produce high-resolution topographic and visual reflectance datasets that rival or exceed lidar and orthoimagery. These new techniques are particularly useful for data collection of coastal systems, which requires high temporal and spatial resolution datasets. The U.S. Geological Survey worked in collaboration with members of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Analytics at Black Beach, in Falmouth, Massachusetts to explore scientific research demands on UAS technology for topographic and habitat mapping applications. This project explored the application of consumer-grade UAS platforms...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Buzzards Bay, Great Sippewissett Inlet, Great Sippewissett Marsh, DJI Phantom 3, Massachusetts, All tags... Barnstable, Cape Cod, USGS, CMGP, UAS, ground control point, drone, Black Beach, Falmouth, unmanned aerial system, aerial images, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, geospatial datasets, aerial photography, JPEG images, Atlantic Ocean, Airborne imagery, WHCMSC, field activity number 2016-010-FA, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, targets, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags

Braddock West orthomosaic from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Braddock Bay, New York in July 2017 (GeoTIFF image).

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinities of Braddock Bay, Sodus Bay, and Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control...

Tags: Westpoint Marina, Braddock Bay Wildlife Management Area, aerial imagery, lakeshore, Orthophoto, All tags... Braddock Point, lake level, photos, raster, low-altitude aerial imagery, Orthomosaic, shoreline photographs, image mosaics, Ricoh GRII, Braddock Bay Park, Braddock Bay, USA, USGS, CMGP, UAS, field activity number 2017-042-FA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Great Lakes, 3DR Solo quadcopter, Greece, NY, inlandWaters, New York, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, photo mosaic, GeoTIFF, Lake Ontario, State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation, photographs, Unmanned aerial system, U.S. Geological Survey, remote sensing, aerial photography, location, shoreline, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, State of New York Department of State, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Fewer tags

Braddock West camera locations and attitudes for low-altitude aerial images collected during unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Braddock Bay, New York in July 2017

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinities of Braddock Bay, Sodus Bay, and Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control...

Categories: Data; Tags: navigational data, Westpoint Marina, Braddock Bay Wildlife Management Area, aerial imagery, lakeshore, All tags... Braddock Point, photos, low-altitude aerial imagery, Global Positioning System, shoreline photographs, Ricoh GRII, Braddock Bay Park, Braddock Bay, USA, USGS, CMGP, UAS, GPS, field activity number 2017-042-FA, elevation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Great Lakes, 3DR Solo quadcopter, State of New York Department of Conservation, Greece, NY, Agisoft Photoscan, inlandWaters, New York, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Lake Ontario, photographs, Unmanned aerial system, U.S. Geological Survey, remote sensing, navigation, aerial photography, location, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, State of New York Department of State, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, camera locations, Fewer tags

High-resolution orthomosaic image (natural color) of Black Beach, Falmouth, Massachusetts on 18 March 2016 (32-bit GeoTIFF)

Imagery acquired with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and coupled with structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry can produce high-resolution topographic and visual reflectance datasets that rival or exceed lidar and orthoimagery. These new techniques are particularly useful for data collection of coastal systems, which requires high temporal and spatial resolution datasets. The U.S. Geological Survey worked in collaboration with members of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Analytics at Black Beach, in Falmouth, Massachusetts to explore scientific research demands on UAS technology for topographic and habitat mapping applications. This project explored the application of consumer-grade UAS platforms...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Buzzards Bay, Great Sippewissett Inlet, Great Sippewissett Marsh, oceans, Three band image mosaic, All tags... DJI Phantom 3, Massachusetts, Cape Cod, USGS, CMGP, UAS, drone, environment, Orthoimagery, Black Beach, Falmouth, Digital aerial imagery, unmanned aerial system, aerial images, inlandWaters, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, GeoTIFF, U.S. Geological Survey, geospatial datasets, aerial photography, Atlantic Ocean, Airborne imagery, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, field activity number 2016-010-FA, Airborne high resolution data, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Natural color, Gridded Data, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags

Independent transect point locations (coordinates only) associated with images collected during unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Spit, Nauset Inlet, and Nauset Marsh, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, Massachusetts on 1 March 2016 (Text file)

This dataset contains the locations of independent survey points acquired on the same day that images were obtained from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flown in the Cape Cod National Seashore. The overall objective of the field work was to evaluate the quality and cost of mapping from UAS images. Low-altitude (approximately 120 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from cameras in a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flown from the lawn adjacent to the Coast Guard Beach parking lot on 1 March, 2016. U.S. Geological Survey technicians deployed and mapped 28 targets that appear in some of the images for use as ground control points. All activities were conducted according to Federal Aviation...

Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Coast Guard Beach, oceans, survey point, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, All tags... Eastham, elevation, Cape Cod, USGS, CMGP, UAS, drone, transect point, Orleans, Nauset Inlet, Nauset Marsh, unmanned aerial system, aerial images, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, location, Atlantic Ocean, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, field activity number 2016-007-FA, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Fewer tags

Braddock East point cloud from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Braddock Bay, New York in July 2017 (LAZ file).

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinities of Braddock Bay, Sodus Bay, and Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control...

Tags: Westpoint Marina, Braddock Bay Wildlife Management Area, aerial imagery, lakeshore, Braddock Point, All tags... lake level, photos, points, low-altitude aerial imagery, shoreline photographs, Ricoh GRII, Braddock Bay Park, Braddock Bay, USA, USGS, CMGP, UAS, LAZ, LAS, field activity number 2017-042-FA, elevation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Great Lakes, 3DR Solo quadcopter, point clouds, Greece, NY, inlandWaters, New York, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, topography, Lake Ontario, State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation, photographs, Unmanned aerial system, U.S. Geological Survey, remote sensing, aerial photography, location, shoreline, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, State of New York Department of State, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Fewer tags

Braddock East digital elevation model (DEM) from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Braddock Bay, New York in July 2017 (32-bit floating point GeoTIFF image).

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinities of Braddock Bay, Sodus Bay, and Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control...

Tags: Westpoint Marina, Braddock Bay Wildlife Management Area, Braddock Point, raster, Braddock Bay Park, All tags... Braddock Bay, USA, USGS, CMGP, UAS, DEM, field activity number 2017-042-FA, elevation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Great Lakes, digital elevation models, Greece, NY, inlandWaters, New York, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, topography, GeoTIFF, Lake Ontario, State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Unmanned aerial system, U.S. Geological Survey, remote sensing, digital elevation model, location, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, State of New York Department of State, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Fewer tags

Braddock West point cloud from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Braddock Bay, New York in July 2017 (LAZ file).

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinities of Braddock Bay, Sodus Bay, and Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control...

Tags: Westpoint Marina, Braddock Bay Wildlife Management Area, Braddock Point, points, Braddock Bay Park, All tags... Braddock Bay, USA, USGS, CMGP, UAS, LAZ, LAS, field activity number 2017-042-FA, elevation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Great Lakes, point clouds, Greece, NY, inlandWaters, New York, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, topography, Lake Ontario, State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Unmanned aerial system, U.S. Geological Survey, remote sensing, aerial photography, location, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, State of New York Department of State, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Fewer tags

Geotagged low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Braddock Bay, New York in July 2017

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinities of Braddock Bay, Sodus Bay, and Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control...

Tags: Westpoint Marina, Braddock Bay Wildlife Management Area, aerial imagery, lakeshore, Braddock Point, All tags... lake level, photos, geotagged photos, low-altitude aerial imagery, shoreline photographs, image collections, Ricoh GRII, Braddock Bay Park, Braddock Bay, USA, JPEG, USGS, CMGP, UAS, field activity number 2017-042-FA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Great Lakes, 3DR Solo quadcopter, Greece, NY, New York, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Lake Ontario, State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation, photographs, Unmanned aerial system, U.S. Geological Survey, remote sensing, aerial photography, location, shoreline, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, State of New York Department of State, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Fewer tags

Positions of temporary targets used as ground control points associated with UAS flights over Black Beach, Falmouth, Massachusetts on 18 March 2016 (text file)

Imagery acquired with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and coupled with structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry can produce high-resolution topographic and visual reflectance datasets that rival or exceed lidar and orthoimagery. These new techniques are particularly useful for data collection of coastal systems, which requires high temporal and spatial resolution datasets. The U.S. Geological Survey worked in collaboration with members of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Analytics at Black Beach, in Falmouth, Massachusetts to explore scientific research demands on UAS technology for topographic and habitat mapping applications. This project explored the application of consumer-grade UAS platforms...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Buzzards Bay, Great Sippewissett Inlet, Great Sippewissett Marsh, Massachusetts, Barnstable, All tags... Cape Cod, USGS, CMGP, UAS, ground control point, drone, Black Beach, Falmouth, elevation, unmanned aerial system, aerial images, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Atlantic Ocean, WHCMSC, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, targets, Fewer tags

Braddock West digital elevation model (DEM) from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Braddock Bay, New York in July 2017 (32-bit floating point GeoTIFF image).

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinities of Braddock Bay, Sodus Bay, and Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control...

Tags: Westpoint Marina, Braddock Bay Wildlife Management Area, Braddock Point, raster, Braddock Bay Park, All tags... Braddock Bay, USA, USGS, CMGP, UAS, DEM, field activity number 2017-042-FA, elevation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Great Lakes, digital elevation models, Greece, NY, inlandWaters, New York, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, topography, GeoTIFF, Lake Ontario, State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Unmanned aerial system, U.S. Geological Survey, remote sensing, digital elevation model, location, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, State of New York Department of State, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Fewer tags

Elevation point cloud from low-altitude aerial imagery from UAS flights over Black Beach, Falmouth, Massachusetts on 18 March 2017 (LAZ file)

Imagery acquired with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and coupled with structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry can produce high-resolution topographic and visual reflectance datasets that rival or exceed lidar and orthoimagery. These new techniques are particularly useful for data collection of coastal systems, which requires high temporal and spatial resolution datasets. The U.S. Geological Survey worked in collaboration with members of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Analytics at Black Beach, in Falmouth, Massachusetts to explore scientific research demands on UAS technology for topographic and habitat mapping applications. This project explored the application of consumer-grade UAS platforms...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: point cloud, Buzzards Bay, Great Sippewissett Inlet, Great Sippewissett Marsh, oceans, All tags... Massachusetts, elevation, Cape Cod, USGS, CMGP, UAS, LAZ, LAS, drone, Black Beach, Falmouth, unmanned aerial system, aerial images, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, geospatial datasets, U.S. Geological Survey, Structure-from-Motion, Atlantic Ocean, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, field activity number 2016-010-FA, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags

UAS-SfM for Coastal Research: Geomorphic Feature Extraction and Land Cover Classification from High-Resolution Elevation and Optical Imagery

Tags: coastal change, drones, Sea-Level Rise and Coasts, geomorphic feature extraction, photogrammetry, All tags... land cover classification, unmanned aerial system, structure-from-motion, elevation model, Education and Workshops, Northeast CSC, Fewer tags

Braddock East orthomosaic from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Braddock Bay, New York in July 2017 (GeoTIFF image).

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinities of Braddock Bay, Sodus Bay, and Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control...

Tags: Westpoint Marina, Braddock Bay Wildlife Management Area, aerial imagery, lakeshore, Orthophoto, All tags... Braddock Point, lake level, photos, raster, low-altitude aerial imagery, Orthomosaic, shoreline photographs, image mosaics, Ricoh GRII, Braddock Bay Park, Braddock Bay, USA, USGS, CMGP, UAS, field activity number 2017-042-FA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Great Lakes, 3DR Solo quadcopter, Greece, NY, inlandWaters, New York, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, photo mosaic, GeoTIFF, Lake Ontario, State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation, photographs, Unmanned aerial system, U.S. Geological Survey, remote sensing, aerial photography, location, shoreline, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, State of New York Department of State, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Fewer tags

Ground control point locations associated with images collected during unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Spit, Nauset Inlet, and Nauset Marsh, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, Massachusetts on 1 March 2016 (Text file and photos)

This dataset documents the locations of ground control points associated with images obtained from unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flown in the Cape Cod National Seashore. Most of the ground control points were temporary targets placed by the U.S. Geological Survey field crew, but four were man-made features already in place, and two were points selected a posteriori from preliminary orthophotomosaics. Photographs of the four in-place features are included in this dataset, as are images showing the location of the two a posteriori points at two zoom levels. The locations of these ground control points can be used to constrain photogrammetric reconstructions based on the aerial imagery. The overall objective of the...

Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Coast Guard Beach, oceans, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, Eastham, All tags... Cape Cod, USGS, CMGP, UAS, ground control point, drone, Orleans, Nauset Inlet, Nauset Marsh, unmanned aerial system, aerial images, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Atlantic Ocean, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, field activity number 2016-007-FA, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, targets, Fewer tags

Braddock East camera locations and attitudes for low-altitude aerial images collected during unmanned aerial systems (UAS) flights over of the Lake Ontario shoreline in the vicinity of Braddock Bay, New York in July 2017

Low-altitude (80-100 meters above ground level) digital images were obtained from a camera mounted on a 3DR Solo quadcopter, a small unmanned aerial system (UAS), in three locations along the Lake Ontario shoreline in New York during July 2017. These data were collected to document and monitor effects of high lake levels, including shoreline erosion, inundation, and property damage in the vicinities of Braddock Bay, Sodus Bay, and Chimney Bluffs State Park, New York. This data release includes images tagged with locations determined from the UAS GPS; tables with updated estimates of camera positions and attitudes based on the photogrammetric reconstruction; tables listing locations of the base stations, ground control...

Categories: Data; Tags: navigational data, Westpoint Marina, Braddock Bay Wildlife Management Area, aerial imagery, lakeshore, All tags... Braddock Point, photos, low-altitude aerial imagery, Global Positioning System, shoreline photographs, Ricoh GRII, Braddock Bay Park, Braddock Bay, USA, USGS, CMGP, UAS, GPS, field activity number 2017-042-FA, elevation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Great Lakes, 3DR Solo quadcopter, State of New York Department of Conservation, Greece, NY, Agisoft Photoscan, inlandWaters, New York, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Lake Ontario, photographs, Unmanned aerial system, U.S. Geological Survey, remote sensing, navigation, aerial photography, location, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, State of New York Department of State, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, camera locations, Fewer tags

Point cloud from low-altitude aerial imagery from unmanned aerial system (UAS) flights over Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Spit, Nauset Inlet, and Nauset Marsh, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, Massachusetts on 1 March 2016 (LAZ file)

This point cloud was derived from low-altitude aerial images collected from an unmanned aerial system (UAS) flown in the Cape Cod National Seashore on 1 March, 2016. The objective of the project was to evaluate the quality and cost of mapping from UAS images. The point cloud contains 434,096,824 unclassifed and unedited geolocated points. The points have horizontal coordinates in NAD83(2011) UTM Zone 19 North meters, vertical coordinates in NAVD88 meters, and colors in the red-green-blue (RGB) schema. The points were generated in photogrammetric software (Agisoft Photoscan Professional v. 1.2.6) from 1122 digital images taken approximately 120 m above the ground with a Canon Powershot SX280 12-mexapixel digital...

Tags: point cloud, Coast Guard Beach, oceans, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts, All tags... Eastham, Cape Cod, USGS, CMGP, UAS, LAZ, LAS, drone, Orleans, Nauset Inlet, Nauset Marsh, unmanned aerial system, aerial images, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Atlantic Ocean, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, field activity number 2016-007-FA, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags

Digital elevation model (DEM) of Black Beach, Falmouth, Massachusetts on 18 March 2016 (32-bit GeoTIFF)

Imagery acquired with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and coupled with structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry can produce high-resolution topographic and visual reflectance datasets that rival or exceed lidar and orthoimagery. These new techniques are particularly useful for data collection of coastal systems, which requires high temporal and spatial resolution datasets. The U.S. Geological Survey worked in collaboration with members of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Analytics at Black Beach, in Falmouth, Massachusetts to explore scientific research demands on UAS technology for topographic and habitat mapping applications. This project explored the application of consumer-grade UAS platforms...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: Buzzards Bay, Great Sippewissett Inlet, Great Sippewissett Marsh, oceans, Massachusetts, All tags... Cape Cod, USGS, CMGP, UAS, drone, elevation, Black Beach, digital elevation models, Falmouth, unmanned aerial system, aerial images, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, geospatial datasets, Structure-from-Motion, Elevation, Atlantic Ocean, geoscientificInformation, WHCMSC, field activity number 2016-010-FA, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Gridded Data, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Fewer tags