2001 Vectorized Shoreline for Breton Island, Louisiana (Geographic, NAD83)

• Main Authors: Joseph F. Terrano, Kathryn E. Smith, James G. Flocks
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2016
• Subjects: Lidar; Coastal; Shoreline data; Shoreline; Shoreline map; Vectorization; Mean High Water; Oceans; Elevation; Environment; Boundaries; GeoscientificInformation; mapping; shore; shoreline erosion; shoreline accretion; barrier island migration; coastal processes; erosion; LA; Breton Island; Gulf of Mexico; Louisiana; USA; Orion; Barrier Island; Airborne Topographic Mapper
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/e927cf8b-60b7-41d2-b316-8dd3a7a71063

A first-surface elevation map was produced cooperatively from remotely sensed, geographically referenced elevation measurements collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on September 07-09, 2001. Elevation measurements were collected over the area using the NASA Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM), a scanning lidar system that measures high-resolution topography of the land surface. The ATM system is deployed on a Twin Otter or P-3 Orion aircraft and incorporates a green-wavelength laser operating at pulse rates of 2 to 10 kilohertz. Measurements from the laser-ranging device are coupled with data acquired from inertial navigation system (INS) attitude sensors and differentially corrected global positioning system (GPS) receivers to measure topography of the surface at accuracies of +/-15 centimeters. This dataset contains vectorized shorelines created from data acquired from Breton Island, Louisiana. Shorelines were vectorized in ArcMap 10.2.2 so they could be used for area and shoreline change analysis, using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) Version 4.0.