These data were collected as a part of the National Coastal Mapping Program to depict the elevations above and below water along the east coastal zone.
Location
Florida, Georgia and South Carolina
Summary
These data were collected by the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise using the CHARTS system. The data includes hydrographic and topographic data. The data were collected in Dec 2005-Feb 2006 for the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia and the Atlantic coast of Florida. Published on Digital Coast: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/50057
Info derived
lidar LAS format
Comments
These data were collected using a SHOALS-1000T system. It is owned and operated by Fugro Pelagos performing contract survey services for the US Army Corps of Engineers. The system collects topographic lidar data at 10kHz and hydrographic data at 1kHz. The system also collects RGB imagery at 1Hz.
Mean slope data between the endpoint locations of the Mean High Water and seaward-most dune toe elevations, interpolated to a 200 m alongshore resolution using a 400 m wide Hanning window