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Field Activity Details for field activity 12CNT02

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Other ID: Aerometric_Post_Issac

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards(1) (MN000J7)

Data Source Information: AEROMETRIC

Information Specialist(s): Kara Doran

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Start Date: 2012-09-05

End Date: 2012-09-10

Equipment Used: Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Notes:

Location:

Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi

Boundaries
North: 30.26185 South: 29.038955 West: -90.9681 East: -88.067

Platform(s):

Publications

Doran, K.S., Birchler, J., Stockdon, H.F., Thompson, D.M., Morgan, K.L.M., Brenner, O.T., 2016, National assessment of hurricane-induced coastal erosion hazards: South Carolina through New Hampshire update: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7RF5S44.

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.

Doran, K.S., Stockdon, H.F., Thompson, D.M., Birchler, J., Plant, N.G., Overbeck, J.R., 2016, National assessment of hurricane-induced coastal erosion hazards: Gulf of Mexico update: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7QC01KZ.

Guy, K.K., Doran, K.J., Stockdon H.F., Plant, N.G., 2014, Topographic lidar survey of the Alabama, Mississippi, and Southeast Louisiana Barrier Islands, from September 5 to October 11, 2012: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 839, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds839.

Guy, K.K., Stockdon, H.F., Plant, N.G., Doran, K.S., Morgan, K.L.M., 2013, Hurricane Isaac: Observations and analysis of coastal change: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1270, 21 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131270.

Henderson, R.E., Nelson, P.R., Long, J.W., Smith, C., 2017, Vector shorelines and associated shoreline change rates derived from lidar and aerial imagery for Dauphin Island, Alabama: 1940-2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7T43RB5.

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.

Malagon-Santos, V., Wahl, T., Long, J.W., Passeri, D.L., Plant, N.G., 2019, Surrogate model development for coastal dune erosion under storm conditions: Coastal Sediments, , doi: 10.1142/9789811204487_0116.

Mickey, R.C., Dalyander, P.S., McCall, R., Passeri, D.L., 2020, Idealized antecedent topography sensitivity study: Initial baseline and modified profiles modeled with XBeach: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9VD60JC.

Mickey, R.C., Long, J.W., Plant, N.G., Thompson, D.M., Dalyander, P.S., 2017, A methodology for modeling barrier island storm-impact scenarios: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1009, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171009.

Plant, N.G., Flocks, J., Stockdon, H.F., Long, J.W., Guy, K.K., Thompson, D.M., Cormier, J.M., Smith, C.G., Miselis, J.L., Dalyander, P.S., 2014, Predictions of barrier island berm evolution in a time-varying storm climatology: Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface, v. 119 no. 2, pp. 300–316, doi: 10.1002/2013jf002871.

Smith, C.G., Long, J.W., Henderson, R.E., Nelson, P.R., 2018, Assessing the impact of open-ocean and back-barrier shoreline change on Dauphin Island, Alabama, at multiple time scales over the last 75 years: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018-1170, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181170.

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.

Thompson, D.M., Dalyander, P.S., Long, J.W., Plant, N.G., 2017, Correction of elevation offsets in multiple co-located lidar datasets: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1031, 15 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171031.

Williams, B.N., Schreppel, H.A., Stalk C.A., 2019, Footprints of lidar datasets published at the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center since 2001: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9B616C5.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) --- LIDAR
12CNT02_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20120905-20121011 Post-Isaac in Louisiana through Alabama)
Data series 839 LAS (las tiles)
Data series 839 DEM (bare earth DEM)
US_erosion_hazards (Probabilities of hurricane-induced erosion (collision, inundation and overwash) for each 1-km section of the Gulf of Mexico coast for category 1–5 hurricanes)

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