Images

Lidar point cloud of wind turbines in Kansas

Lidar point cloud of wind turbines in Texas- QL2 data. Turbines were spinning as data was being collected.

Lidar point cloud over Dulles Airport

Lidar point cloud over Tacoma WA bridge

Lidar point cloud over Washington, DC

An example of a lidar point cloud showing structures

Lidar point cloud Washington, DC

Lidar point cloud Washington, DC

Lidar point cloud- Pittsburgh, PA

Location map for Bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor of the Sandy Hook artificial reef, offshore of New Jersey, data release.

Location Map of Atlantic Beach artificial reef, offshore of New York

Location map of HARS site

Location map of the Hudson Canyon survey area.

Graph of land area change rate in coastal Louisiana from 1932–2016.  The red line approximates the long-term land area change rate. 95 out of 100 statistical analyses would produce a very similar trend (dotted blue lines). Credit: USGS

Low dunes near Cape Canaveral launch pads 39A and 39B often overwash during storm events, transporting sand landward. Critical infrastructure may be buried or flooded. In addition, significant landward transport of sand may lead to extensive shoreline erosion.

USGS technicians preparing for a streamflow measurement by lowering an acoustic Doppler current profiler from a cable way on the American River near Fair Oaks, California. 

Excerpt of satellite image showing landslide impacts to roads, agriculture, and a reservoir in the Lares Municipality. Points identify the approximate location of roads visibly impacted by landslides. Image filename contains approximate latitude and longitude of this impact location.

Big Sur coast. Red squares mark some of the sites damaged by 2016–17 winter storms, including Mud Creek and Paul’s Slide areas.

Map of Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, N.J., marsh shoreline change rates.

Map of subsea permafrost distributions on the U.S. and Canadian Arctic Ocean margin. The inset map shows the location of the larger map. Subsea permafrost on the Canadian margin was delineated in the 1980s (blue curve). The red curve on the U.S.

Map of gravity stations measured in 2017 in Yellowstone National Park. Yellow lines are roads, dashed line marks the caldera boundary, black line outlines Yellowstone National Park, green circles note resurgent domes, and red dots are gravity stations.