This digital camera (beachcam_001) operated for over 4.5 years between February 5, 2009 and October 13, 2013. It was located atop the Sheraton Waikīkī hotel to photograph the shoreline of Waikīkī beach along the South Shore of the island of Oʻahu in the State of Hawaiʻi. The oblique camera view presented here captures the shoreline leading southeast towards Diamond Head crater. 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 beach dynamics such as wave run-up, sand movement, and turbidity plumes over time. The camera was mounted on a 3-meter wall extending above the roof surface for a total height of 93 meters above ground level or 96 meters above mean sea level.
This camera was owned and maintained by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR) under the supervision of Dr. Mark Merrifield and lab.
See also beachcam_002 for an alternate camera view from the same location pointing directly downwards.
