PacIOOS Beach Camera 004: Waimea Bay (Offshore), Oahu, Hawaii

Description

A digital camera mounted inside the bell tower of the Mission of Sts. Peter and Paul church was used to photograph Waimea Bay on the North Shore of the island of Oahu in the State of Hawaii. The oblique camera view presented here captures the entire breadth of the bay at a distance offshore of the beach park (not visible) looking outwards over Kamehameha Highway towards Kaena Point in the southwest. It operated for over 4.5 years between February 5, 2009 and October 14, 2013. Capturing hourly snapshots at a set vantage point during the local daytime hours of 6:00 AM or 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, these images are useful for tracking ocean wave and water dynamics over time. The camera was mounted in the bell tower windows for a total height of 20 meters above ground level or 31 meters above mean sea level. See also beachcam_003 for an alternate camera view from the same location pointing further inshore of Waimea Bay along the shoreline of the beach park.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 ERDDAP's Make-A-Graph .html web page for this dataset. Create an image with a map or graph of a subset of the data. https://pae-paha.pacioos.hawaii.edu/erddap/tabledap/beachcam_004.graph
27 http://pacioos.org
0 This URL provides a viewer and/or data access for this dataset. http://pacioos.org/shoreline/beachcam-waimea-offshore/
21 ERDDAP's version of the OPeNDAP .html web page for this dataset. Specify a subset of the dataset and download the data via OPeNDAP or in many different file types. https://pae-paha.pacioos.hawaii.edu/erddap/tabledap/beachcam_004.html
0 https://scripps.ucsd.edu/profiles/mamerrifield
0 This URL provides access to the files for this dataset. https://pae-paha.pacioos.hawaii.edu/erddap/files/beachcam_004/
0 https://scripps.ucsd.edu/profiles/mamerrifield
0 https://scripps.ucsd.edu/profiles/mamerrifield
0 ERDDAP's tabledap service (a flavor of OPeNDAP) for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .graph, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. https://pae-paha.pacioos.hawaii.edu/erddap/tabledap/beachcam_004
0 https://scripps.ucsd.edu/profiles/mamerrifield
0 An OPeNDAP service for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. https://pae-paha.pacioos.hawaii.edu/erddap/tabledap/beachcam_004

Tags

  • height
  • united states of america
  • latitude
  • cameras
  • altitude
  • visible wavelengths
  • longitude
  • pacioos
  • continent
  • oahu
  • hawaii
  • pacific islands ocean observing system
  • north america
  • passive remote sensing
  • earth science
  • ocean
  • hawaiian islands
  • visible imagery
  • central pacific ocean
  • photon/optical detectors
  • spectral/engineering
  • time
  • in situ land-based platforms
  • pacific ocean
  • earth remote sensing instruments
  • north shore
  • waimea bay

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