2010 Assateague Island National Seashore USGS EAARL Lidar-Derived Dune Crest, Toe and Shoreline

Metadata also available as - [Questions & Answers] - [Parseable text] - [XML]

Metadata:

Identification_Information
Data_Quality_Information
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
Spatial_Reference_Information
Entity_and_Attribute_Information
Distribution_Information
Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Kara S. Doran
Originator: Joseph W. Long
Originator: Hilary F. Stockdon
Originator: Justin J. Birchler
Originator: Matthew W. Hardy
Originator: Karen L.M. Morgan
Originator: Owen Brenner
Publication_Date: 20170609
Title:

2010 Assateague Island National Seashore USGS EAARL Lidar-Derived Dune Crest, Toe and Shoreline

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: tabular digital data
Series_Information:

Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Data Release
Issue_Identification: doi:10.5066/F7GF0S0Z

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: St. Petersburg, FL
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GF0S0Z

Description:

Abstract:

The Storm-Induced Coastal Change Hazards component of the National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards project focuses on understanding the magnitude and variability of extreme storm impacts on sandy beaches. Lidar-derived beach morphologic features such as dune crest, toe and shoreline help define the vulnerability of the beach to storm impacts. This dataset defines the elevation and position of the seaward-most dune crest and toe and the mean high water shoreline derived from the 2010 Assateague Island (Virginia and Maryland) USGS Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) lidar survey. Beach width is included and is defined as the distance between the dune toe and shoreline along a cross-shore profile. The beach slope is calculated using this beach width and the elevation of the shoreline and dune toe.

Purpose:

To provide data on the morphology of U.S. sandy beaches. Data were collected during USGS field activity number (FAN) 10LTS02; additional survey details are available at http://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=10LTS02.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20100319
Ending_Date: 20100324

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -75.3818
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -75.0934
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 38.3243
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 37.8475

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier
Theme_Keyword: USGS:64dc911a-dcd0-4ba6-9e9a-af7cb8045b6f

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey
Theme_Keyword: USGS
Theme_Keyword: St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Theme_Keyword: CMGP
Theme_Keyword: SPCMSC

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation
Theme_Keyword: elevation
Theme_Keyword: environment
Theme_Keyword: oceans

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus
Theme_Keyword: hazards
Theme_Keyword: marine geology
Theme_Keyword: ocean sciences
Theme_Keyword: coastal processes

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: United States of America
Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean
Place_Keyword: Virginia
Place_Keyword: Maryland

Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:

Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. The U.S. Geological Survey requests to be acknowledged as originators of the data in future products or derivative research.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Hilary Stockdon

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th Street South
City: Saint Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: UNITED STATES

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-502-8074
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-502-8001
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hstockdon@usgs.gov

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7600); Esri ArcGIS 10.0.4.4000; MATLAB 2014a

Data_Quality_Information:

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Morphologic features are QA/QC'd in ArcMap and edited in MATLAB, if needed.

Completeness_Report:

This dataset is considered complete for the information presented as described in the abstract section. Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

Horizontal accuracy is estimated for shorelines only by calculating the 95% confidence interval of the regression line through the shoreline position and is dependent on foreshore slope, scatter in the lidar data points, and specified lidar point uncertainty.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

Vertical accuracy is determined for each dune crest and toe value based upon the scatter of data in the lidar grid cell.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Publication_Date: 2011
Title:

EAARL Coastal Topography-Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland and Virginia, 2010

Online_Linkage: https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/628/

Type_of_Source_Media: Online digital data
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20100319
Ending_Date: 20100324

Source_Currentness_Reference: The date when lidar surveys were collected.

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: 10LTS02
Source_Contribution:

A lidar survey that was used to estimate dune morphology variables.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Elevation data points from the lidar survey were interpolated in MATLAB 2014a to a gridded domain (segment) that was rotated parallel to the shoreline and had a resolution of 10 meters (m) in the longshore direction and 2.5 m in the cross-shore direction. The interpolation method applies spatial filtering with a Hanning window that is twice as wide as the grid resolution. Dune crest, toe and shoreline are extracted from the elevation grid in MATLAB every 10 m alongshore (each grid row is a profile). For details on feature extraction see: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1084/.

Process_Date: Not Complete

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: point
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 17616

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geographic:

Latitude_Resolution: 0.0197843295
Longitude_Resolution: 0.0229959585
Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal Degrees

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: D WGS 1984
Ellipsoid_Name: WGS 1984
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257223563

Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Altitude_System_Definition:

Altitude_Datum_Name: North American Vertical Datum of 1988
Altitude_Resolution: 0.0001
Altitude_Distance_Units: meter
Altitude_Encoding_Method: Attribute values

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: 10LTS02_morphology.csv
Entity_Type_Definition:

Dune crest, toe and shoreline, beach width and mean beach slope.

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: state
Attribute_Definition:

State segment file identification (ID) number. See data dictionary for details of the numbering system.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 12
Range_Domain_Maximum: 13

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: segment
Attribute_Definition: Segment ID number
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1
Range_Domain_Maximum: 88

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: profile
Attribute_Definition:

Grid row number corresponding to a cross-shore profile location.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1
Range_Domain_Maximum: 797

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: lon
Attribute_Definition: Feature location longitude (WGS84).
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: -75.3818
Range_Domain_Maximum: -75.0934
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 999
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Null value
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: lat
Attribute_Definition: Feature location latitude (WGS84).
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 37.8475
Range_Domain_Maximum: 38.3234
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: decimal degrees

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 999
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Null value
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: x
Attribute_Definition: Cross-shore feature location.
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: -705.1741
Range_Domain_Maximum: 92.0118
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: meters

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 999
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Null value
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: z
Attribute_Definition:

Feature elevation (NAVD88). For shorelines, it is the mean-high water elevation.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.34
Range_Domain_Maximum: 10.5118
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: meters

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 999
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Null value
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: x_err
Attribute_Definition:

95% confidence interval for the cross-shore shoreline position (NAVD88).

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 0.8364
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: meters

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 999
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Null value
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: z_err
Attribute_Definition: Root mean squared vertical error of dune crest (NAVD88).
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0
Range_Domain_Maximum: 13.9781
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: meters

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 999
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Null value
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: beach_width
Attribute_Definition: Distance between dune toe and shoreline (NAVD88).
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 11.4101
Range_Domain_Maximum: 226.8523
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: meters

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 999
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Null value
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: slope
Attribute_Definition:

Mean beach slope calculated between dune toe and shoreline (NAVD88).

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 0.0072
Range_Domain_Maximum: 0.1349
Attribute_Units_of_Measure: radians

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 999
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Null value
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: feature_type
Attribute_Definition: An identifier for the type of feature in the table entry.
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: DC, DT, SL
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Dune Crest, Dune Toe, Shoreline
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Kara S. Doran

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th Street South
City: Saint Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-502-8117
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-502-8001
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: kdoran@usgs.gov

Distribution_Liability:

This digital publication was prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution imply any such warranty. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and (or) contained herein. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: ASCII
File_Decompression_Technique: none

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/data-release/doi-F7GF0S0Z/data/10LTS02_morphology.zip

Fees: none

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20240401
Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Kara S. Doran

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 600 4th Street South
City: Saint Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: UNITED STATES

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-502-8117
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-502-8001
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: kdoran@usgs.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

This page is <https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/catalog/spcmsc/10LTS02_morphology_metadata.html>