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Linking Goniometer Measurements To Hyperspectral And Multi-Sensor Imagery For Retrieval Of Beach Properties And Coastal Characterization, Charles M. Bachmann, Deric Gray, Andrei Abelev, William D. Philpot, Marcos J. Montes, Robert A. Fusina, Joseph Musser, Rong-Rong Li, Michael Vermillion, Geoffrey Smith, Daniel Korwan, Charlotte Snow, David W. Miller, Joan Gardner, Matt Sletten, Georgi Georgiev, Barry Truitt, Marcus Kilmon, Jon Sellars, Jason Woolard, Christopher Parrish, A. Schwarzschild

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

In June 2011, a multi-sensor airborne remote sensing campaign was flown at the Virginia Coast Reserve Long Term Ecological Research site with coordinated ground and water calibration and validation (cal/val) measurements. Remote sensing imagery acquired during the ten day exercise included hyperspectral imagery (CASI-1500), topographic LiDAR, and thermal infra-red imagery, all simultaneously from the same aircraft. Airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data acquisition for a smaller subset of sites occurred in September 2011 (VCR'11). Focus areas for VCR'11 were properties of beaches and tidal flats and barrier island vegetation and, in the water column, shallow water bathymetry. On land, cal/val …