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Field Activity Details for field activity 06CNT07

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

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

Data Source Information: Digital coast/ FEMA

Information Specialist(s): Kara Doran

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Start Date: 2006-09-01

End Date: 2006-12-31

Equipment Used: Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)

Information to be Derived: beach morphology

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Notes:

Location:

Oahu

Boundaries
North: 21.89386052 South: 20.95312082 West: -158.49023572 East: -157.43551335

Platform(s):

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
06CNT07_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20060901-20061231 in Hawai‘i)
06CNT07_lidar (2006 FEMA Lidar: Hawaiian Islands downloaded from digital coast)

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