Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): U.S. National Park Service, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Lidar for Science and Resource Management (MN00E3J)
Principal Investigator(s): John Brock, Amar Nayegandhi
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Emily Klipp
Data Type(s): 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 Assateague Island National Seashore in Virginia and Maryland 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: 2008-03-24
End Date: 2008-03-25
Equipment Used: Digital Camera, Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL), GPS , Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera
Information to be Derived: The purpose of this project was to produce a highly detailed and accurate bare-earth digital elevation map of the Assateague Island National Seashore in Virginia and Maryland for use as a management tool and to make these data available to natural resource managers and research scientists.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: bare earth data set that was collected 24-25 March 2008 along the shoreline of the Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland and Virginia. The data falls in these counties: Worcester (MD) and Accomack (VA)
Staff:
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Assateague Island
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 38.37870593 | South: 37.84957802 | West: -75.42290211 | East: -74.95128393 |
Platform(s):
 Airplane |
Bonisteel, J.M., Nayegandhi, A., Brock, J.C., Stevens, S., Yates, X., Klipp, E., 2009, EAARL coastal topography - Assateague Island National Seashore 2008: First surface: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 446, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds446.
Bonisteel, J.M., Nayegandhi, A., Brock, J.C., Wright, C.W., Stevens, S., Yates, X., Klipp, E., 2009, EAARL coastal topography - Assateague Island National Seashore 2008: Bare earth: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 447, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds447.
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.
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.
Rose, K.V., Nayegandhi, A., Moses, C.S., Beavers, R., Lavoie, D., Brock, J.C., 2011, Gap analysis of benthic mapping at three national parks: Assateague Island National Seashore, Channel Islands National Parks, and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1291, 60 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20111291.
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.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Camera | --- | Photo Video | |
| Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) | --- | LIDAR | 08LTS05-LI-pd-2 (lidar-derived first-surface (FS) topography†GIS†datasets of the Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland and Virginia) 08LTS05-LI-pd-1 (lidar-derived bare-earth (BE) topography†GIS†datasets of the Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland and Virginia) 08LTS05_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20080324-20080325 in Virginia and Maryland) |
| GPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera | --- | Other Imagery |
