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

Field Activity 06LTS02

Identifier 06LTS02
Alternate names CHAN
Purpose to collect lidar data
Location Northern Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)
Projects
Platform
Airplane
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 2006-03-14
End (port not specified) 2006-03-15
Bounds
West -88.9805
East -87.579
North 30.4427
South 29.6945

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 (no data reported)
GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) LIDAR 25

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
06LTS02_first_return.zip Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Lidar-derived first-return elevation data for the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, and Ship Island, Mississippi through Orange Beach, Alabama Karen L M Morgan
06LTS02_last_return.zip Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Lidar-derived last-return elevation data for the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, and Ship Island, Mississippi through Orange Beach, Alabama Karen L M Morgan
06LTS02_morphology.zip Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20060314-20060315 in Mississippi and Alabama Kara S Doran

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Initial_Model_Baseline Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Polyline shapefiles of Mean High Water (MHW) shorelines extracted from lidar elevation data from 1998–2014 Rachel E Henderson
Aerial_Shorelines_1940_2015 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Polyline shapefiles of Wet Dry Line (WDL) shoreline delineated from historical aerial imagery from 1940–2015 Rachel E Henderson
Transects_OpenOcean Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) 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 Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Open-ocean offshore baseline for generating shore-normal transects in DSAS Rachel E Henderson
Baseline_BackBarrier Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LIDAR (EAARL) Back-barrier offshore baseline for generating shore-normal transects in DSAS Rachel E Henderson
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