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Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-368-DD

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Data Source Information: USACE JALBTCX

Information Specialist(s): Alexandra Fredericks

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Start Date: 2016-05-19

End Date: 2016-07-20

Equipment Used: Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Notes: Data collected with CZMIL sensor

Location:

FL East Coast

Boundaries
North: 30.74183572 South: 25.31375369 West: -81.67236328 East: -79.76025391

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., 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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) --- LIDAR
2016-368-DD_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20160519-20160720 in Florida)

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