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; distributions; bathymetry and elevation; altimetry; topographic mapping; LIDAR; digital elevation models; 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/b6d53e04-b9fc-438b-9326-fab5c2c6034e

Derived products of 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, Inc. (Delaware, Maryland, Virgina, and North Carolina) and Woolpert, Inc. (Fire Island, New York) using airborne lidar sensors. Post-storm coastal dune and mean-high-water shoreline features, binary point-cloud data, and digital elevation model (DEM) data are included in this Data Series.