1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System
  3. Dataset 27178

Dataset description: 98LTS05_morphology.zip

Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 19981029-19981109 in Louisiana through Florida
Keywordscoastal processes, hazards, marine geology, ocean sciences
Data typesLIDAR
Formatcomma-delimited text;
Amount4.5 MB

Contacts

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Location of materials and files

Public fileshttps://doi.org/10.5066/F7GF0S0Z
Metadatahttps://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/spcmsc/98LTS05_morphology_metadata.xml
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Activities and equipment

ActivityEquipment
98LTS05Airborne Topographic Mapper 2 (ATM2)
The Airborne Topographic Mapper 2 (ATM2) is part of NASA’s Airborne Topographic Mapper system, a series of scanning lidar instruments designed to measure Earth’s surface topography with high precision. ATM2 is one of the second-generation instruments in the ATM series, which was operational from the mid-1970s to 2022.