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Field Activity Details for field activity 05LTS05

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Other ID: HR_KATRINA

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 hurricane Katrina impact zone

Vehicle(s): None

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End Port/Location:

Start Date: 2005-09-01

End Date: 2005-09-08

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

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

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Location:

Northern Gulf of Mexico

Boundaries
North: 31.15053221 South: 28.43683261 West: -91.5601 East: -84.37451172

Platform(s):

photo of Airplane
Airplane

Publications

Brock, J.C., Wright, C.W., Nayegandhi, A., Patterson, M., Wilson, I., Travers, L.J., 2007, EAARL topography - Gulf Islands National Seashore - Mississippi: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1377, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20071377.

Brock, J.C., Wright, C.W., Patterson, M., Nayegandhi, A., Wilson, I., Travers, L.J., 2007, EAARL topography - Gulf Islands National Seashore, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1422, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20071422.

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.

Fredericks, X., Kranenburg, C.J., Doran, K.S., 2017, EAARL coastal topographyâNorthwest Florida, post-Hurricane Katrina, 2005: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7862DPV.

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.

Kindinger, J.L., Buster, N.A., Flocks, J.G., Bernier, J.C., Kulp, M.A., 2013, Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) Program summary report: Data and analyses 2006 through 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1083, 86 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131083.

Kranenburg, C.J., Long, J.W., Fredericks, X., 2017, EAARL coastal topographyâChandeleur Islands, post-Hurricane Katrina, 2005: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7VM49CR.

Kranenburg, C.J., Long, J.W., Zawada, D.G., 2016, EAARL coastal topographyâDauphin Island, Post-Hurricane Katrina, 2005: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F78G8HSG.

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.

Malagon-Santos, V., Wahl, T., Long, J.W., Passeri, D.L., Plant, N.G., 2019, Surrogate model development for coastal dune erosion under storm conditions: Coastal Sediments, , doi: 10.1142/9789811204487_0116.

Mickey, R.C., Dalyander, P.S., McCall, R., Passeri, D.L., 2020, Idealized antecedent topography sensitivity study: Initial baseline and modified profiles modeled with XBeach: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9VD60JC.

Mickey, R.C., Dalyander, P.S., McCall, R., Passeri, D.L., 2020, Sensitivity of Storm Response to Antecedent Topography in the XBeach Model: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Jmse, v. 8 no. 10, 829 p., doi: 10.3390/jmse8100829.

Mickey, R.C., Long, J.W., Plant, N.G., Thompson, D.M., Dalyander, P.S., 2017, A methodology for modeling barrier island storm-impact scenarios: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1009, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171009.

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.

Plant, N.G., Thompson, D.M., Elias, E., 2011, Process-based model predictions of hurricane-induced morphodynamic change on low-lying barrier islands: Coastal Sediments '11, Miami, FL, May 2-6, 2011, pp. 1299–1303.

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.

Thompson, D.M., Dalyander, P.S., Long, J.W., Plant, N.G., 2017, Correction of elevation offsets in multiple co-located lidar datasets: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1031, 15 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171031.

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
05LTS05-LI-pd-18 (Lidar-derived Bare Earth (BE) tile extent shapefile of Floridas Gulf Islands National Seashore)
KATRINA2005_Florida_EAARLA_BE_z16_n88g96.xyz (Lidar-derived bare-earth topography collected post-Hurricane Katrina in Florida.)
KATRINA2005_Florida_EAARLA_FS_z16_n88g96.xyz (Lidar-derived first-surface topography collected post-Hurricane Katrina in Florida.)
KATRINA2005_Chandeleur_EAARLA_ FS_n88g96.zip (Lidar-derived first-surface topography for the Chandeleur Islands, LA.)
05LTS05-LI-pd-16 (Lidar-derived Bare Earth (BE) hillshade grid of Floridas Gulf Islands National Seashore)
05LTS05-LI-pd-12 (Lidar-derived Bare Earth (BE) hillshade grid of Mississippis Gulf Islands National Seashore)
05LTS05-LI-pd-11 (Lidar-derived Bare Earth (BE) DEM geotiffs of Mississippis Gulf Islands National Seashore)
KATRINA2005_Chandeleur_EAARLA_ BE_n88g96.zip (Lidar-derived bare-earth topography for the Chandeleur Islands, LA.)
05LTS05-LI-pd-13 (Lidar-derived Bare Earth (BE) contour shapefile of Mississippis Gulf Islands National Seashore)
05LTS05-LI-pd-14 (Lidar-derived Bare Earth (BE) tile extent shapefile of Mississippis Gulf Islands National Seashore)
05LTS05-LI-pd-17 (Lidar-derived Bare Earth (BE) contour shapefile of Floridas Gulf Islands National Seashore)
05LTS05-LI-pd-15 (Lidar-derived Bare Earth (BE) DEM geotiffs of Floridas Gulf Islands National Seashore)
05LTS05_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20050901-20050908 Post-Katrina in Mississippi, through Florida)

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