Baseline Coastal Oblique Aerial Photographs Collected from Breton Island, Louisiana, to the Alabama-Florida Border, July 13, 2013.

• Main Authors: K. Morgan, K. Westphal
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2014
• Subjects: U.S. Geological Survey; National Assessment Project; photographs; coastline; Beach Erosion; Coastal Aerial Photography; Baseline Survey; Barrier Islands; environment; imageryBaseMapsEarthCover; structure; Chandeleur Islands; Breton Island; Horn Island; Petit Bois Island; Ship Island; Cat Island; Dauphin Island; Florida; Alabama; Mississippi; Louisiana; Keyhole; Bois Island
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/656d7ad4-8d0d-4f0c-93dc-61e35961f75f

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) conducts baseline and storm response photography missions to document and understand the changes in vulnerability of the Nation's coasts to extreme storms. On July 13, 2013, the USGS conducted an oblique aerial photographic survey from Breton Island, Louisiana, to the Alabama-Florida border, aboard a Cessna 172 aircraft at an altitude of 500 feet (ft) and approximately 1,000 ft offshore (Figure 2). This mission was flown to collect data for assessing incremental changes since the last survey and can be used for assessing future coastal change. The photographs provided here are Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) images. The photograph locations are an estimate of the position of the aircraft and do not indicate the location of the feature in the images (See the Navigation Data page). These photographs document the configuration of the barrier islands and other coastal features at the time of the survey. The header of each photo is populated with time of collection, Global Positioning System (GPS) latitude, GPS longitude, GPS position (latitude and longitude), keywords, credit, artist (photographer), caption, copyright, and contact; these were added to each photograph's EXIF header using ExifTools. Photographs can be opened directly with any JPEG-compatible image viewer by clicking on a thumbnail on the contact sheet. Table 1 provides detailed information about the assigned location, name, data, and time the photograph was taken along with links to the photograph. In addition to the photographs, a Google Earth Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file is provided and can be used to view the images by clicking on the marker and then clicking on either the thumbnail or the link above the thumbnail. The KML files were created using the photographic navigation files. Note: A KML number was assigned to each photograph to aid navigation of the Google Earth file. These numbers correspond to the site labels in Google Earth.