Coastal Topography--Northeast Atlantic Coast, Post-Hurricane Sandy, 2012: Mean-high-water shoreline

Mean-high-water (MHW) shoreline for a portion of the New York, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina coastlines were derived from lidar data collected following Hurricane Sandy (Sandy was an October 2012 hurricane that made landfall as an extratropical cyclone on the 29th). Data were prod...

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Bibliographic Details
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/d7444f4b-2e3e-41dc-86e8-b30429c34075
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Summary:Mean-high-water (MHW) shoreline for a portion of the New York, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina coastlines were derived from lidar data collected following Hurricane Sandy (Sandy was an October 2012 hurricane that made landfall as an extratropical cyclone on the 29th). Data were produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from remotely sensed, geographically-referenced elevation measurements collected by Photo Science, Inc. (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina) and Woolpert, Inc. (Fire Island, New York) using airborne lidar sensors. Storms cause significant shoreline changes and this variation was not removed from these data, showing a highly variable MHW shoreline in many areas.

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