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Field Activity Details for field activity 14CNT07

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards - NACCH (GX.21.MN00.F4J20.00)

Data Source Information: Title: 2014 USACE NAE Topobathy Lidar: Maine Point Cloud files with Orthometric Vertical Datum North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) using GEOID12A Online_Linkage: https://coast.noaa.gov/htdata/lidar1_z/geoid12b/data/4911/

Information Specialist(s): Kara Doran

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Start Date: 2014-11-09

End Date: 2014-11-16

Equipment Used: Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), Other

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Notes:

Location:

New Hampshire

Boundaries
North: 43.553311 South: 43.315829 West: -70.559548 East: -70.244618

Platform(s):

Publications

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., 2020, Lidar-derived beach morphology (Dune Crest, Dune Toe, and Shoreline) for U.S. sandy coastlines (ver 3.0, February 2020): 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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) --- LIDAR
14CNT07_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20141109-20141115 in Maine)
Other --- --- ---

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