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

Field Activity 99LTS04

Identifier 99LTS04
Alternate names East_Coast09
Purpose to collect lidar data
Location East Coast US
Projects
Platform
Airplane
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1999-10-06
End (port not specified) 1999-11-04
Bounds
West -81.4624
East -71.841639
North 41.093469
South 25.633621

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
Airborne Topographic Mapper 2 (ATM2) LIDAR 6

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
99LTS04-LI-pd-13 Airborne Topographic Mapper 2 (ATM2) North Carolina Mean Beach Slopes Kara S Doran
99LTS04-LI-pd-14 Airborne Topographic Mapper 2 (ATM2) North Carolina Raw Beach Slopes Kara S Doran

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
NC_Raw_Slopes Airborne Topographic Mapper 2 (ATM2) Raw, non-interpolated endpoint slope data between the location of the Mean High Water and seaward-most dune toe elevations. Kara S Doran
NC_Mean_Slopes Airborne Topographic Mapper 2 (ATM2) 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 Kara S Doran
SFL_Raw_slopes Airborne Topographic Mapper 2 (ATM2) Raw, non-interpolated endpoint slope data between the location of the Mean High Water and seaward-most dune toe elevations Kara S Doran
SFL_Mean_slopes Airborne Topographic Mapper 2 (ATM2) 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 Kara S Doran

Publications

Doran, K.S.; Long, J.W.; Overbeck, J.R, 2015, A method for determining average beach slope and beach slope variability for U.S. sandy coastlines: , https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151053.

Doran, K.S.; Long, J.W.; Overbeck, J.R., 2015, Beach slopes of North Carolina: Salvo to Duck: , https://doi.org/10.5066/F7M906Q6.

Hapke, C.J.; Plant, N.G.; Henderson, R.E.; Schwab, W.C.; Nelson, T.R., 2016, Decoupling processes and scales of shoreline morphodynamics: Marine Geology 381, 42, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2016.08.008.

Overbeck, J.R.; Doran, K.S., 2015, Beach slopes of Florida: Miami to Jupiter: , https://doi.org/10.5066/F72805P1.