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Coastal Changes and Impacts
Below is a list of of the most recent Coastal Changes and Impacts publications.
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Elevation uncertainty in coastal inundation hazard assessments Elevation uncertainty in coastal inundation hazard assessments
Coastal inundation has been identified as an important natural hazard that affects densely populated and built-up areas (Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction, 2008). Inundation, or coastal flooding, can result from various physical processes, including storm surges, tsunamis, intense precipitation events, and extreme high tides. Such events cause quickly rising water levels. When rapidly...
Authors
Dean Gesch
Metadata requirements and templates Metadata requirements and templates
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Authors
Karl Heidemann
LiDAR - An emerging tool for geological applications LiDAR - An emerging tool for geological applications
Over the past five to ten years the use and applicability of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology has increased dramatically. As a result, more and more LiDAR data now are being collected across the country for a wide range of applications, and LiDAR currently is the technology of choice for high resolution terrain model creation, 3-D city and infrastructure modeling, forestry...
Authors
Jason Stoker
Lidar base specification Lidar base specification
In late 2009, a $14.3 million allocation from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) for new light detection and ranging (lidar) elevation data acquisition prompted the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Geospatial Program (NGP) to develop a common minimum specification for all lidar data acquired for The National Map. Released as a working draft in 2010 and formally...
Authors
Hans Heidemann
Using regional-scale pre- and post Hurricane Katrina lidar for monitoring and modeling: Chapter 30 Using regional-scale pre- and post Hurricane Katrina lidar for monitoring and modeling: Chapter 30
Hurricane Katrina was one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. Due to the sheer size of the affected areas, an unprecedented regional analysis at very high resolution and accuracy was needed to properly quantify and understand the effects of the hurricane and the storm tide. Many disparate sources of lidar data were acquired and processed for varying environmental reasons by...
Authors
Jason Stoker, D. Turnipseed, Kenneth Wilson
Global multi-resolution terrain elevation data 2010 (GMTED2010) Global multi-resolution terrain elevation data 2010 (GMTED2010)
In 1996, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developed a global topographic elevation model designated as GTOPO30 at a horizontal resolution of 30 arc-seconds for the entire Earth. Because no single source of topographic information covered the entire land surface, GTOPO30 was derived from eight raster and vector sources that included a substantial amount of U.S. Defense Mapping Agency...
Authors
Jeffrey Danielson, Dean Gesch
LiDAR: Providing structure LiDAR: Providing structure
Since the days of MacArthur, three-dimensional (3-D) structural information on the environment has fundamentally transformed scientific understanding of ecological phenomena (MacArthur and MacArthur 1961). Early data on ecosystem structure were painstakingly laborious to collect. However, as reviewed and reported in recent volumes of Frontiers(eg Vierling et al. 2008; Asner et al.2011)...
Authors
Lee Vierling, Sebastián Martinuzzi, Gregory Asner, Jason Stoker, Brian Johnson
Demonstration of a conceptual model for using LiDAR to improve the estimation of floodwater mitigation potential of Prairie Pothole Region wetlands Demonstration of a conceptual model for using LiDAR to improve the estimation of floodwater mitigation potential of Prairie Pothole Region wetlands
Recent flood events in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America have stimulated interest in modeling water storage capacities of wetlands and their surrounding catchments to facilitate flood mitigation efforts. Accurate estimates of basin storage capacities have been hampered by a lack of high-resolution elevation data. In this paper, we developed a 0.5 m bare-earth model from Light...
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S. Huang, Caitlin Young, M. Feng, Hans Heidemann, Matthew Cushing, D.M. Mushet, S. Liu
Evaluation of the Global Multi-Resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) using ICESat geodetic control Evaluation of the Global Multi-Resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) using ICESat geodetic control
Supported by NASA's Earth Surface and Interior (ESI) Program, we are producing a global set of Ground Control Points (GCPs) derived from the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) altimetry data. From February of 2003, to October of 2009, ICESat obtained nearly global measurements of land topography (+/- 86deg latitudes) with unprecedented accuracy, sampling the Earth's surface...
Authors
C.C. Carabajal, D.J. Harding, J.-P. Boy, Jeffrey Danielson, D.B. Gesch, V.P. Suchdeo