1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 07LTS02

Identifier 07LTS02
Purpose The purpose of this project was to produce a highly detailed and accurate bare earth digital elevation map of the northern Gulf of Mexico barrier islands for use as a management tool and to make these data available to natural resource managers and research scientists.
Location St. Bernard in LA, Harrison and Jackson in MS, Mobile and Baldwin in AL, and Escambia and Santa Rosa in FL
Summary his data set provides the those bare earth elevation measurements of the barrier islands in the following counties: St. Bernard in LA, Harrison and Jackson in MS, Mobile and Baldwin in AL, and Escambia and Santa Rosa in FL.
Info derived bare earth digital elevation map
Projects
Platform
Airplane
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Unknown 2007-06-27
End Unknown 2007-06-30
Bounds
West -89.54539776
East -86.83568001
North 30.6287543
South 29.23008846

Personnel

Organization
National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA)
Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Organization
U.S. National Park Service
Principal investigators Brock, John
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Emily S Klipp
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation
Data type: Other Imagery, Photo, LIDAR, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Digital Camera Photo, Video (no data reported)
Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera Other Imagery 2
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) LIDAR 44
GPS Navigation (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
07LTS02-OI-pd-1 Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera color-infrared (CIR) imagery GIS†datasets of the Naval Live Oaks Area in Florida's Gulf Islands National Seashore Alexandra M Fredericks
07LTS02-OI-pd-11 Multispectral Color-infrared (CIR) Digital Camera Color Infrared (CIR) 25-centimeter-resolution mosaic Alexandra M Fredericks
07LTS02-LI-pd-1 Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Lidar-derived bare earth (BE) coastal topography Geographic Information Systems (GIS)†data of the barrier islands and peninsular areas within the northern Gulf of Mexico Alexandra M Fredericks
07LTS02-LI-pd-2 Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Lidar-derived first surface (FS) coastal topography Geographic Information Systems (GIS)data of the barrier islands and peninsular areas within the northern Gulf of Mexico Alexandra M Fredericks
07LTS02-LI-pd-3 Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) lidar-derived bare-earth (BE) GIS†datasets of the Naval Live Oaks Area in Florida's Gulf Islands National Seashore Alexandra M Fredericks
07LTS02-LI-pd-4 Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) canopy height (CH)†GIS†datasets of the Naval Live Oaks Area in Florida's Gulf Islands National Seashore Alexandra M Fredericks
07LTS02-LI-pd-5 Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) lidar-derived first-surface (FS) topography GIS†datasets of the Naval Live Oaks Area in Florida's Gulf Islands National Seashore Alexandra M Fredericks
07LTS02-LI-pd-6 Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Bare Earth (BE) 1-meter-resolution mosaic Alexandra M Fredericks
07LTS02-LI-pd-7 Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) First Surface (FS) 1-meter-resolution mosaic Alexandra M Fredericks
07LTS02-LI-pd-8 Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Canopy Height (CH) 1-meter-resolution mosaic Alexandra M Fredericks
07LTS02_morphology.zip Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20070627-20070630 in Mississippi and Alabama Kara S Doran

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Initial_Model_Baseline Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial baseline bathymetry/topography (z) model profile Rangley C Mickey
Initial_Model_LowBeachWidth Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial low beach width bathymetry/topography (z) model profile Rangley C Mickey
Initial_Model_HighBeachWidth Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial high beach width bathymetry/topography (z) model profile Rangley C Mickey
Initial_Model_HighBerm Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial high berm bathymetry/topography (z) model profile Rangley C Mickey
Initial_Model_LowBerm Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial low berm bathymetry/topography (z) model profile Rangley C Mickey
Initial_Model_HighDuneHeight Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial high dune height bathymetry/topography (z) model profile Rangley C Mickey
Initial_Model_LandwardDune Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial landward positioned dune bathymetry/topography (z) model profile Rangley C Mickey
Initial_Model_ShorewardDune Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial shoreward positioned dune bathymetry/topography (z) model profile Rangley C Mickey
Initial_Model_LowDuneWidth Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial low dune width bathymetry/topography (z) model profile Rangley C Mickey
Initial_Model_HighDuneWidth Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial high dune width bathymetry/topography (z) model profile Rangley C Mickey
Initial_Model_LowIslandCentroidHeight Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial low island centroid height bathymetry/topography (z) model profile Rangley C Mickey
Initial_Model_HighIslandCentroidHeight Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial high island centroid height bathymetry/topography (z) model profile Rangley C Mickey
Initial_Model_LowBeachSlope Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial low beach slope bathymetry/topography (z) model profile Rangley C Mickey
Initial_Model_HighBeachSlope Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial high beach slope bathymetry/topography (z) model profile Rangley C Mickey
Lidar_Shorelines_1998_2014 Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Polyline shapefiles of Mean High Water (MHW) shorelines extracted from lidar elevation data from 1998–2014 Rachel E Henderson
Aerial_Shorelines_1940_2015 Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Polyline shapefiles of Wet Dry Line (WDL) shoreline delineated from historical aerial imagery from 1940–2015 Rachel E Henderson
Transects_OpenOcean Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Polyline shapefiles of DSAS generated shore normal transects for the open-ocean shoreline of Dauphin Island, with associated rates of change for three shoreline analyses: Lidar shoreline change (1998–2014), Aerial shoreline change (1940–2015), and combined Lidar and Aerial shoreline change (1940–2015) Rachel E Henderson
Transects_BackBarrier Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Polyline shapefiles of DSAS generated shore normal transects for the back-barrier shoreline of Dauphin Island, with associated rates of change for three shoreline analyses: Lidar shoreline change (1998–2014), Aerial shoreline change (1940–2015), and combined Lidar and Aerial shoreline change (1940–2015) Rachel E Henderson
Baseline_OpenOcean Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Open-ocean offshore baseline for generating shore-normal transects in DSAS Rachel E Henderson
Baseline_BackBarrier Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Back-barrier offshore baseline for generating shore-normal transects in DSAS Rachel E Henderson
Lidar_Footprints_Merged Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Merged footprint of all lidar data published by the USGS SPCMSC since 2001 Breanna N Williams
Lidar_Footprints_Individual Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Individual footprints of lidar data published by the USGS SPCMSC since 2001 Breanna N Williams
Existing_Initial_Elevations Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the FLOW model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial bathymetry/topography (z) model grid for the existing condition Davina L Passeri
Project_Initial_Elevations Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the FLOW model grid (Easting and Northing); the initial bathymetry/topography (z) model grid for with-project conditions. Davina L Passeri
Deterministic_20150827_20150829 Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); u (through-channel) and v (cross-channel) velocities for the deterministic scenario run from 2015/08/27 through 2015/08/29. Davina L Passeri
Deterministic_20151209_20151211 Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); u (through-channel) and v (cross-channel) velocities for the deterministic scenario run from 2015/12/09 through 2015/12/11. Davina L Passeri
Deterministic_20050619_20051120 Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variable: water levels extracted at the location of the Dauphin Island tide gauge (8735180) for the deterministic scenario run from 2005/06/19 through 2005/11/20. Davina L Passeri
Existing_2010_0mSLR Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the final bathymetry/topography (z) for the existing condition 2010 simulation without sea level rise. Davina L Passeri
Existing_2010_05mSLR Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the final bathymetry/topography (z) for the existing condition 2010 simulation with 0.5 m of sea level rise. Davina L Passeri
Existing_10yr_0mSLR Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the final bathymetry/topography (z) for the existing condition 10-year simulation without sea level rise. Davina L Passeri
Existing_10yr_05mSLR Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the final bathymetry/topography (z) for the existing condition 10-year simulation with 0.5 m of sea level rise. Davina L Passeri
Project_2010_0mSLR Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the final bathymetry/topography (z) for the with-project condition 2010 simulation without sea level rise. Davina L Passeri
Project_2010_05mSLR Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the final bathymetry/topography (z) for the with-project condition 2010 simulation with 0.5 m of sea level rise. Davina L Passeri
Project_10yr_0mSLR Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the final bathymetry/topography (z) for the with-project condition 10-year simulation without sea level rise. Davina L Passeri
Project_10yr_05mSLR Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) NetCDF file containing the following variables: coordinates of the model grid (Easting and Northing); the final bathymetry/topography (z) for the with-project condition 10-year simulation with 0.5 m of sea level rise. Davina L Passeri

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity