Coastal Topography--Northeast Atlantic Coast, Post-Hurricane Sandy, 2012

• Main Author: U.S. Geological Survey
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2013
• Subjects: elevation; Cessna 206; Cessna 310; Dhigh; Dlow; Digital Elevation Model; DEM; dune crest; dune toe; extratropical cyclone; laser altimetry; lidar; remote sensing; shoreline; topography; LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION; OCEAN > COASTAL PROCESSES > BARRIER ISLANDS; OCEAN > COASTAL PROCESSES > BEACHES; OCEAN > COASTAL PROCESSES > SHORELINE DISPLACEMENT; DOI/USGS/CMG > COASTAL AND MARINE GEOLOGY, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR; LIDAR > LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; Delaware; Maryland; Fire Island; Long Island; New York; North Carolina; Virginia; DelMarVa Peninsula; United States; Barrier Islands; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/8398b77b-4e4f-4588-81bb-f6a1e8e9becd

Dune features (dune crest and toe elevations) and mean-high-water shoreline data for a portion of the New York, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina coastlines, post-Hurricane Sandy (Sandy was an October 2012 hurricane that made landfall as an extratropical cyclone on the 29th), were produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from remotely sensed, geographically referenced elevation measurements collected by Photo Science and Woolpert using using airborne lidar sensors. Binary point-cloud data, as well as digital elevation models (DEM), were also produced by Photo Science and Woolpert and are included in this Data Series.