Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s):
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): John Brock, C Wayne Wright
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Emily Klipp, Rodolfo Troche
Data Type(s): Imagery: Other Imagery, Location-Elevation: LIDAR, Location-Elevation: Navigation
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect coastal elevation data along the NJ coastline before Hurricane Sandy landfall.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Salisbury, MD
End Port/Location: Salisbury, MD
Start Date: 2012-10-16
End Date: 2012-10-27
Equipment Used: Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL), Red Green Blue (RGB) Digital Camera, GPS , Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera
Information to be Derived: Topobathymetric elevation data
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff: Emily Klipp, Rodolfo Troche, C Wayne Wright
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Pre-Hurricane Sandy coastal NJ
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 40.91662791 | South: 39.24996125 | West: -74.6383 | East: -72.97162392 |
Platform(s):
 Airplane |
Birchler, J.J., Dalyander, P.S., Stockdon, H.F., Doran, K.S., 2015, National assessment of nor'easter-induced coastal erosion hazards: mid- and northeast Atlantic coast: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1154, 41 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151154.
Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Birchler, J.J., Morgan, K.L.M., 2016, Beach slopes of New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7C24TJB.
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.
Miselis, J.L., Lorenzo-Trueba, J., 2017, Natural and human-induced variability in barrier-island response to sea level rise: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 44 no. 23, pp. 11922–11931, doi: 10.1002/2017gl074811.
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.
Sopkin, K.L., Stockdon, H.F., Doran, K.S., Plant, N.G., Morgan, K.L.M., Guy, K.K., Smith, K.E.L., 2014, Hurricane Sandy: observations and analysis of coastal change: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014-1088, 64 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141088.
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.
Wright, C.W., Fredericks, X., Troche, R.J., Klipp, E.S., Kranenburg, C.J., Nagle, D.B., 2014, EAARL-B coastal topography: eastern New Jersey, Hurricane Sandy, 2012: first surface: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 767, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds767.
Wright, C.W., Kranenburg, C.J., Klipp, E.S., Troche, R.J., Fredericks, X., Masessa, M.L., Nagle, D.B., 2014, EAARL-B coastal topography- Fire Island, New York, pre-Hurricane Sandy, 2012; seamless (bare earth and submerged): U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 888, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds888.
Wright, C.W., Troche, R.J., Klipp, E.S., Kranenburg, C.J., Fredericks, X., Nagle, D.B., 2014, EAARL-B submerged topography- Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, pre-Hurricane Sandy, 2012: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 885, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds885.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) | --- | LIDAR | Data series 888 topography (Lidar-derived Bare Earth and Submerged topography GIS datasets and DEMs of Fire Island, NY Pre Hurricane Sandy) 12LTS03-LI-pd-9 (Lidar-derived submerged topographic 10-km DEMs of Barnegat Bay, NJ Pre Hurricane Sandy) 12LTS03_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20121016-20121027 pre-Sandy in New Jersey and New York) 12LTS03-LI-pd-10 (Tile extents for submerged topography datasets of Barnegat Bay, NJ Pre Hurricane Sandy) 12LTS03-LI-pd-6 (Lidar-derived first surface topography datasets of New Jersery Pre and Post-Hurricane Sandy) 12LTS03-LI-pd-8 (Lidar-derived submerged topography GIS datasets of Barnegat Bay, NJ Pre Hurricane Sandy) Data series 888 extents (Tile extents for Bare Earth and Submerged topography datasets of Fire Island, NY Pre Hurricane Sandy) 12LTS03-LI-pd-7 (Tile extents for first surface topography datasets) |
| Red Green Blue (RGB) Digital Camera | --- | Other Imagery | |
| GPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera | --- | Other Imagery |
