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Field Activity Details for field activity 2018-306-CNT

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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: USGS GPSC Vendor, Flown for SPCMSC: USGS Contract G16PC00016, Task Order 140G0219G0002

Information Specialist(s): Kara Doran, Alexandra Fredericks, Jennifer Miselis, Nathaniel Plant

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Start Date: 2018-10-27

End Date: 2018-11-03

Equipment Used: Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Notes:

Location:

Chandeleur Islands, LA; Dauphin Island, AL; Santa Rosa Island, FL

Boundaries
North: 30.443938 South: 29.71191043 West: -88.97827148 East: -86.484375

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., 2023, Lidar-derived beach morphology (Dune Crest, Dune Toe, and Shoreline) for U.S. sandy coastlines (ver. 5.0, August 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GF0S0Z.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) --- LIDAR
2018-306-CNT_morphology (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20181027-20181103 post-Michael in Florida and Alabama)

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