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Field Activity Details for field activity 99LTS10

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Lidar for Science and Resource Management (MN00E3J)

Principal Investigator(s): John Brock

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Emily Klipp

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Scientific Purpose/Goals: to collect lidar data

Vehicle(s): None

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Start Date: 1999-10-16

End Date: 1999-10-16

Equipment Used: Airborne Topographic Mapper 2 (ATM2)

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Location:

Texas

Boundaries
North: 29.684762 South: 29.258936 West: -94.8393 East: -93.824199

Platform(s):

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Publications

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.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Airborne Topographic Mapper 2 (ATM2) --- LIDAR
99LTS10_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 19991016 in Texas)

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