Field Activity 05LTS06

Identifier 05LTS06
Alternate names HR_RITA
Purpose to collect lidar for the impact zone of Hurricane Rita
Location Texas and Louisiana
Projects
Platform
Airplane
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 2005-09-27
End (port not specified) 2005-10-02
Bounds
West -97.025
East -91.998
North 30.345
South 27.965

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Brock, John
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Emily S Klipp
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation
Data type: LIDAR

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Digital Camera Photo, Video (no data reported)
Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera Other Imagery 1
GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) LIDAR 6

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
05LTS06-OI-pd-1 Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera color infrared imagery 250-centimeter-resolution mosaic tiles Alexandra M Fredericks
05LTS06-LI-pd-12 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Lidar-derived first surface (FS) topography GIS datasets of Western Louisiana Alexandra M Fredericks
05LTS06_morphology.zip Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20050927-20051002 post-Rita in Texas and Louisiana Kara S Doran
RITA2005_Texas_EAARLA_BE_n88g96.xyz Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Lidar-derived bare-earth topography collected post-Hurricane Rita in Texas Kara S Doran
RITA2005_Texas_EAARLA_FS_n88g96.xyz Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Lidar-derived first-surface topography collected post-Hurricane Rita in Texas Kara S Doran

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Lidar_Footprints_Merged Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Merged footprint of all lidar data published by the USGS SPCMSC since 2001 Breanna N Williams
Lidar_Footprints_Individual Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Individual footprints of lidar data published by the USGS SPCMSC since 2001 Breanna N Williams

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity