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Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-369-DD

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Data Source Information: USACE National Coastal Mapping Program

Information Specialist(s): Alexandra Fredericks

Data Type(s): Imagery: Other Imagery, Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Start Date: 2016-07-23

End Date: 2016-10-10

Equipment Used: Red Green Blue (RGB) Digital Camera, Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar (CZMIL)

Information to be Derived: LAS, 1-m res grids, rectified RGB imagery

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: CZMIL lidar and RGB imagery

Notes:

Location:

Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida Panhandle Coastline

Boundaries
North: 31.80284989 South: 27.44491551 West: -97.54760742 East: -83.64217122

Platform(s):

Publications

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., 2020, Lidar-derived beach morphology (Dune Crest, Dune Toe, and Shoreline) for U.S. sandy coastlines (ver 3.0, February 2020): 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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Red Green Blue (RGB) Digital Camera --- Other Imagery
Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar (CZMIL) --- LIDAR
2016-369-DD_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20160723-20161010 in Alabama and Mississippi)

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