Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s):
Funding Program(s): National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards - NACCH (GX.21.MN00.F4J20.00)
Data Source Information: Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of eXpertise (JALBTCX)
Information Specialist(s): Kara Doran
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR
Start Date: 2010-04-09
End Date: 2010-04-26
Equipment Used: Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Notes: https://coast.noaa.gov/htdata/lidar1_z/geoid12a/data/1065
2010 US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX) Topographic Lidar: Louisiana Coast, Lake Pontchartrain and Mississippi Barrier Islands
Location:
Louisiana Coast, Lake Pontchartrain and Mississippi Barrier Islands
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 30.264472 | South: 29.032926 | West: -90.777072 | East: -88.390472 |
Platform(s):
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.
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.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) | --- | LIDAR | 10CNT17_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20100409-20100426 in Louisiana and Mississippi) |
