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Field Activity Details for field activity 2018-307-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/Quantum Spatial, Inc.

Information Specialist(s): Justin Birchler, Kara Doran

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Start Date: 2018-01-13

End Date: 2019-02-23

Equipment Used: Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 2018 USGS Lidar: South Texas; collected by USGS/Quantum Spatial, Inc. from 2018-01-13 to 2019-02-23

Notes: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/57941

Incorrect FAN was originally assigned. Changed from 2018-698-CNT to 2018-307-CNT on 09/24/20.

Location:

Texas

Boundaries
North: 29.2717236633 South: 25.812082831 West: -100.090283973 East: -96.3022627695

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 (Version 4.0): 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
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) --- LIDAR
2018-307-CNT_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20180113- 20190223 in Texas)

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