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Field Activity Details for field activity 16CNT04

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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Funding Program(s):

Data Source Information: USACE JALBTCX

Information Specialist(s): Alexandra Fredericks

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Start Date: 2016-10-28

End Date: 2016-11-26

Equipment Used: Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: .

Notes:

Location:

Post-Matthew East Coast: FL, GA, SC, NC, and VA

Boundaries
North: 36.94989179 South: 24.83236782 West: -80.78125 East: -75.76171875

Platform(s):

Publications

Birchler, J.J., Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Stockdon, H.F., 2019, Hurricane Matthew: Predictions, observations, and an analysis of coastal change: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2019-1095, 48 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20191095.

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
16CNT04_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20161028-20161126 in Georgia through Virginia post-Matthew)

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