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Field Activity Details for field activity 04LTS03

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Other ID: HR_IVAN

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Lidar for Science and Resource Management (MN00E3J)

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 for the impact zone of hurricane Ivan

Vehicle(s): None

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Start Date: 2004-09-19

End Date: 2004-09-19

Equipment Used: Digital Camera, Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera, GPS , Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL)

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Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

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Location:

Alabama, Mississippi and Florida

Boundaries
North: 30.54030814 South: 29.49609113 West: -88.76727819 East: -83.9858222

Platform(s):

photo of Airplane
Airplane

Publications

Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Birchler, J.J.,, B., O.T., Hardy, M.W., Morgan, K.L.M., Stockdon, H.F., Torres, M.L., 2017, Lidar-derived beach morphology (dune crest, dune toe, and shoreline) for U.S. sandy coastlines: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GF0S0Z.

Henderson, R.E., Nelson, P.R., Long, J.W., Smith, C., 2017, Vector shorelines and associated shoreline change rates derived from lidar and aerial imagery for Dauphin Island, Alabama: 1940-2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7T43RB5.

Lavoie, D.L., Sallenger, A.H., Jr., Flocks, J.G., Kindinger, J.L., Twichell, D.C., 2010, Effects of building a barrier berm to mitigate the effects of oil on Louisiana marshes from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1108, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20101108.

Long, J.W., de Bakker, A.T.M., Plant, N.G., 2014, Scaling coastal dune elevation changes across storm-impact regimes: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 41 no. 8, pp. 2899–2906, doi: 10.1002/2014gl059616.

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.

Morton, R.A., Montgomery, M.C., 2010, Geomorphology and depositional subenvironments of Gulf Islands National Seashore, Perdido Key and Santa Rosa Island, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1330, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20101330.

Nayegandhi, A., Brock, J.C., Sallenger, A.H., Jr., Wright, C.W., Travers, L.J., Lebonitte, J., 2008, EAARL coastal topography - Northern Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 384, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds384.

Plant, N.G., Stockdon, H.F., 2012, Probabilistic prediction of barrier-island response to hurricanes: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 117.

Sallenger, A.H., Jr., Wright, C.W., Lillycrop, W.J., Howd, P.A., Stockdon, H.F., Guy, K.K., Morgan, K.L.M., 2007, Extreme changes to barrier islands along the central Gulf of Mexico coast during Hurricane Katrina: In: Farris, G.S., Smith, G., Holm, T., Robbins, L., Demas, C. (Eds.). Science and the storms: the USGS response to the hurricanes of 2005, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1306, Lafayette, LA, pp. 113–118, URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1306/.

Smith, C.G., Long, J.W., Henderson, R.E., Nelson, P.R., 2018, Assessing the impact of open-ocean and back-barrier shoreline change on Dauphin Island, Alabama, at multiple time scales over the last 75 years: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018-1170, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181170.

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.

Williams, B.N., Schreppel, H.A., Stalk C.A., 2019, Footprints of lidar datasets published at the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center since 2001: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9B616C5.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video
Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera --- Other Imagery
GPS --- Navigation
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) --- LIDAR
04LTS03_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20040919 Post-Ivan in Mississippi, through Florida)
04LTS03-LI-pd-14 (Lidar-derived first surface (FS) topography GIS datasets of Eastern Florida)
OFR 2009-1250 geospatial data (Geomorphology and depositional subenvironments of Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi)
04LTS03-LI-pd-13 (Lidar-derived bare earth (BE) topography GIS datasets of Eastern Florida)

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