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: USACE/ Digital Coast
Information Specialist(s): Kara Doran
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR
Start Date: 2015-06-06
End Date: 2015-06-30
Equipment Used: Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)
Information to be Derived: Beach morphology
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 15CNT02
Location:
Florida Gulf Coast
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 30.85612105 | South: 24.7714783 | West: -88.55957031 | East: -80.97851563 |
Platform(s):
Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Birchler, J.J., Brenner, O.T., Hardy, M.W., Morgan, K.L.M., Stockdon, H.F., Torres, M.L., 2018, Lidar-derived beach morphology (Dune Crest, Dune Toe, and Shoreline) for U.S. sandy coastlines (ver 2.0, August 2018): 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.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) | --- | LIDAR | 15CNT02_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20150606-20150630 in Florida) 2015 USACE NCMP Topobathy Lidar: Florida Gulf Coast (downloaded from Digital Coast) |
