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Field Activity Details for field activity 17CNT01

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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Data Source Information: USACE JALBTCX

Information Specialist(s): Alexandra Fredericks, Jennifer Miselis, Nathaniel Plant

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Start Date: 2017-08-19

End Date: 2017-09-16

Equipment Used: Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

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Location:

Coastal New Jersey

Boundaries
North: 40.56311437 South: 38.85296838 West: -75.04085868 East: -73.86535645

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Publications

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
17CNT01_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20170809-20170915 in South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and New York)

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