{"id":15800,"date":"2020-06-25T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=15800"},"modified":"2020-06-25T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T12:48:14","slug":"ncdot-division-of-aviation-photographs-seagrass-for-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/north-carolina\/ncdot-division-of-aviation-photographs-seagrass-for-research\/%20","title":{"rendered":"NCDOT Division of Aviation Photographs Seagrass for Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A multi-flight project photographing the seagrass meadows\nbelow the surface of the water along the Outer Banks was completed recently by\nthe North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) Division of Aviation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each red line represents a photo line flown by NCDOT’s photogrammetry aircraft during this project. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The project was initiated and funded by the\nAlbemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership. The team took photos along the\ncoast from Kitty Hawk to Jacksonville to allow scientists to compare past and\neventually future pictures to determine the health of the seagrass and how it\nis changing over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bobby Walston<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This is not an easy process with multiple things to consider. \u201cAll the stars have to align,\u201d said Bobby Walston, Division of Aviation Director. \u201cWeather, visibility, time of day, water clarity, tide \u2013 all of these elements must be considered for a successful mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Division owns and flies a Beech C-90 King Air (shown at\nleft) for all of its photogrammetry. For Fiscal Year 2019 (July 1, 2018 \u2013 June\n30, 2019) the Division completed more than 180 photogrammetry missions putting\n185 hours on the aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NCDOT Beech C-90 King Air<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

   For this fiscal\nyear (July 1, 2019 \u2013 May 30, 2020) the Division has completed 70 missions,\nputting 99 hours on the aircraft. Walston pointed out that the peak of\nphotogrammetry missions and flights are during the winter and early Spring\nweeks when leaves are not on the trees. \u201cCOVID-19 certainly cut into our\nnumbers for this year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the total number of flights, including passenger, have been down this year due to the coronavirus, Walston is hopeful that it will pick up soon. The Division\u2019s flight department consists of three pilots, a flight manager, a mechanic and a flight scheduler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The infrared allows us to more clearly see the seagrass areas, shown here in darker shading on either side of the two boats. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A multi-flight project photographing the seagrass meadows below the surface of the water along the Outer Banks was completed recently by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) Division of Aviation. The project was initiated and funded by the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership. The team took photos along the coast from Kitty Hawk to Jacksonville […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page-slider","category-north-carolina"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7005edit2-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15806,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15800\/revisions\/15806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}