This digital camera (beachcam_002) 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 on the South Shore of the island of Oʻahu in the State of Hawaiʻi. The orthogonal camera view presented here is taken in the nadir direction (vertically downwards) towards the Sheraton boardwalk and its nearshore surroundings. 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_001 for an oblique camera view from the same location pointing southeast towards Diamond Head crater.
