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Field Activity Details for field activity 07LTS02

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. National Park Service

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): Imagery: Other Imagery, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: LIDAR, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: The purpose of this project was to produce a highly detailed and accurate bare earth digital elevation map of the northern Gulf of Mexico barrier islands for use as a management tool and to make these data available to natural resource managers and research scientists.

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Unknown

End Port/Location: Unknown

Start Date: 2007-06-27

End Date: 2007-06-30

Equipment Used: Digital Camera, Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera, Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), GPS

Information to be Derived: bare earth digital elevation map

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: his data set provides the those bare earth elevation measurements of the barrier islands in the following counties: St. Bernard in LA, Harrison and Jackson in MS, Mobile and Baldwin in AL, and Escambia and Santa Rosa in FL.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

St. Bernard in LA, Harrison and Jackson in MS, Mobile and Baldwin in AL, and Escambia and Santa Rosa in FL

Boundaries
North: 30.6287543 South: 29.23008846 West: -89.54539776 East: -86.83568001

Platform(s):

photo of Airplane
Airplane

Publications

Danielson, J.J., Brock, J.C., Howard, D.M., Gesch, D.B., Bonisteel-Cormier, J.M., Travers, L.J., 2013, Topobathymetric model of Mobile Bay, Alabama: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 769, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds769.

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.

Doran, K.S., Stockdon, H.F., Plant, N.G., Sallenger, A.H., Jr., Guy, K.K., Serafin, K.A., 2009, Hurricane Gustav: Observations and analysis of coastal change: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1279, 28 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20091279.

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.

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., 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., Jenkins, R.L., Dalyander, P.S., Thompson, D.M., Plant, N.G., Long, J.W., 2020, Dauphin Island decadal forecast evolution model inputs and results : U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9PDM1OJ.

Mickey, R.C., Jenkins, R.L., Dalyander, P.S., Thompson, D.M., Plant, N.G., Long, J.W., 2020, Dauphin Island decadal hindcast model inputs and results: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P91ALL6C.

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., Rogers, B.E., 2009, Geomorphology and depositional subenvironments of Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1250, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20091250.

Nagle, D.B., Nayegandhi, A., Yates, X., Brock, J.C., Wright, C.W., Bonisteel, J.M., Klipp, E., Segura, M., 2009, EAARL coastal topography and imagery - Naval Live Oaks area, 2007: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 481, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds481.

Passeri, D.L., Bilskie, M.V., Plant, N.G., Long, J.W., Hagen, S.C., 2018, Dauphin Island XBeach sea level rise assessment: model inputs and results: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7N87930.

Passeri, D.L., Bilskie, M.V., Plant, N.G., Long, J.W., Hagen, S.C., 2018, Dynamic modeling of barrier island response to hurricane storm surge under future sea level rise: Climatic Change, Climatic Change, v. 149 no. 3-4, pp. 413–425, doi: 10.1007/s10584-018-2245-8.

Passeri, D.L., Dalyander, P.S., Long, J.W., Mickey, R.C., Jenkins, R.L., III, Thompson, D.M., Plant, N.G., Godsey, E.S., Gonzalez, V.M., 2020, The Roles of Storminess and Sea Level Rise in Decadal Barrier Island Evolution: Geophysical Research Letters, Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 47 no. 18, doi: 10.1029/2020GL089370.

Passeri, D.L., Long, J.W., Jenkins, R.L., III, Thompson, D.M., 2018, Effects of proposed navigation channel improvements on sediment transport in Mobile Harbor, Alabama: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018-1123, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181123.

Passeri, D.L., Long, J.W., Jenkins, R.L., Thompson, D.M., 2018, Mobile Harbor navigation channel Delft3D model inputs and results: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9SS1DJW.

Plant, N.G., Flocks, J., Stockdon, H.F., Long, J.W., Guy, K.K., Thompson, D.M., Cormier, J.M., Smith, C.G., Miselis, J.L., Dalyander, P.S., 2014, Predictions of barrier island berm evolution in a time-varying storm climatology: Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface, v. 119 no. 2, pp. 300–316, doi: 10.1002/2013jf002871.

Plant, N.G., Smith, K.E.L., Passeri, D.L., Smith, C.G., Bernier, J.C., 2018, Barrier-island and estuarine-wetland physical-change assessment after Hurricane Sandy: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1157, 45 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171157.

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.

Smith, K.E.L., Nayegandhi, A., Wright, C.W., Bonisteel, J.M., Brock, J.C., 2009, EAARL coastal topography - Northern Gulf of Mexico 2007: Bare earth: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 400, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds400.

Smith, K.E.L., Nayegandhi, A., Wright, C.W., Bonisteel, J.M., Brock, J.C., 2009, EAARL coastal topography - Northern Gulf of Mexico 2007: First surface: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 399, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds399.

Stockdon, H.F., Doran, K., Serafin, K.A., 2010, Coastal change on Gulf Islands National Seashore during Hurricane Gustav: West Ship, East Ship, Horn, and Petit Bois Islands: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1090, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20101090.

Stockdon, H.F., Doran, K., Thompson, D., Sopkin, K., 2012, National assessment of hurricane-induced coastal erosion hazards: Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1084, 51 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20121084.

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
07LTS02-OI-pd-11 (Color Infrared (CIR) 25-centimeter-resolution mosaic)
07LTS02-OI-pd-1 (color-infrared (CIR) imagery GIS†datasets of the Naval Live Oaks Area in Florida's Gulf Islands National Seashore )
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) --- LIDAR
07LTS02-LI-pd-7 (First Surface (FS) 1-meter-resolution mosaic)
07LTS02-LI-pd-8 (Canopy Height (CH) 1-meter-resolution mosaic)
07LTS02-LI-pd-2 (Lidar-derived first surface (FS) coastal topography Geographic Information Systems (GIS)data of the barrier islands and peninsular areas within the northern Gulf of Mexico)
07LTS02-LI-pd-4 (canopy height (CH)†GIS†datasets of the Naval Live Oaks Area in Florida's Gulf Islands National Seashore)
07LTS02-LI-pd-1 (Lidar-derived bare earth (BE) coastal topography Geographic Information Systems (GIS)†data of the barrier islands and peninsular areas within the northern Gulf of Mexico)
07LTS02-LI-pd-6 (Bare Earth (BE) 1-meter-resolution mosaic)
07LTS02_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20070627-20070630 in Mississippi and Alabama)
07LTS02-LI-pd-5 (lidar-derived first-surface (FS) topography GIS†datasets of the Naval Live Oaks Area in Florida's Gulf Islands National Seashore)
07LTS02-LI-pd-3 (lidar-derived bare-earth (BE) GIS†datasets of the Naval Live Oaks Area in Florida's Gulf Islands National Seashore)
GPS --- Navigation

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