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Field Activity Details for field activity 00LTS04

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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Principal Investigator(s): John Brock

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Emily Klipp

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Scientific Purpose/Goals: to collect lidar data

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Start Date: 2000-09-20

End Date: 2000-11-02

Equipment Used: Airborne Topographic Mapper 2 (ATM2)

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Location:

East Coast US

Boundaries
North: 43.795677 South: 37.797225 West: -75.5224 East: -69.692953

Platform(s):

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Publications

Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Birchler, J.J., Weber, K.M., 2016, Beach slopes of Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7B8568F.

Long, J.W., Henderson, R.E., Thompson, D.M., 2020, Forecasting future beach width-A case study along the Florida Atlantic coast: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2019-1150, 20 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20191150.

Stockdon, H.F., Long, J.W., Palmsten, M.L., Van der Westhuysen, A., Doran, K.S., Snell, R.J., 2023, Operational forecasts of wave-driven water levels and coastal hazards for US Gulf and Atlantic coasts: Communications Earth & Environment, v. 4 no. 1, 169 p., doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00817-2.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Airborne Topographic Mapper 2 (ATM2) --- LIDAR
00LTS04_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20000920-20001102 in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and New York)

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