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Field Activity Details for field activity 14CNT01

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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: Contact_Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Geodetic Survey (NGS), Remote Sensing Division Contact_Position: Chief, Remote Sensing Division Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical address Address: 1315 East West Highway, N/NGS3 Address: SSMC-3 8142 City: Silver Spring State_or_Province: MD Postal_Code: 20910 Country: USA Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-713-2663

Information Specialist(s): Justin Birchler, Kara Doran

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Start Date: 2014-01-08

End Date: 2014-05-22

Equipment Used: Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Topobathy

Notes:

Location:

MD

Boundaries
North: 38.452 South: 37.835 West: -75.415 East: -75.038

Platform(s):

Publications

Birchler, J.J., Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Stockdon, H.F., 2019, Hurricane Matthew: Predictions, observations, and an analysis of coastal change: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2019-1095, 48 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20191095.

Doran, K.S., Birchler, J., Stockdon, H.F., Thompson, D.M., Morgan, K.L.M., Brenner, O.T., 2016, National assessment of hurricane-induced coastal erosion hazards: South Carolina through New Hampshire update: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7RF5S44.

Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Birchler, J.J., Brenner, O.T., Hardy, M.W., Morgan, K.L.M., Stockdon, H.F., Torres, M.L., 2023, Lidar-derived beach morphology (Dune Crest, Dune Toe, and Shoreline) for U.S. sandy coastlines (ver. 5.0, August 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GF0S0Z.

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.

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., Pardun, J.M., Birchler, J.J., DELETE: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1457WHJ.

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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) --- LIDAR
14CNT01_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20140108-20140727 in South Carolina through New York)
US_erosion_hazards (Probabilities of hurricane-induced erosion (collision, inundation and overwash) for each 1-km section of the Gulf of Mexico coast for category 1–5 hurricanes)

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