2001 Vectorized Shoreline for Breton Island, Louisiana (Geographic, NAD83)
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.
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| @type | dcat:Dataset |
|---|---|
| accessLevel | public |
| bureauCode |
[ "010:12" ] |
| contactPoint |
{ "fn": "Joseph F. Terrano", "@type": "vcard:Contact", "hasEmail": "mailto:jterrano@usgs.gov" } |
| description | 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. |
| distribution |
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| identifier | http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_de380c22-ab00-4a85-8a21-4fe7f818f597 |
| keyword |
[ "Boundaries", "Breton Island", "Coastal", "Elevation", "Environment", "GeoscientificInformation", "Gulf of Mexico", "LA", "Lidar", "Louisiana", "Mean High Water", "Oceans", "Shoreline", "Shoreline data", "Shoreline map", "USA", "USGS:de380c22-ab00-4a85-8a21-4fe7f818f597", "Vectorization", "barrier island migration", "coastal processes", "erosion", "mapping", "shore", "shoreline accretion", "shoreline erosion" ] |
| modified | 2020-10-13T00:00:00Z |
| publisher |
{ "name": "U.S. Geological Survey", "@type": "org:Organization" } |
| spatial | -89.181277, 29.478429, -89.168168, 29.497321 |
| theme |
[ "geospatial" ] |
| title | 2001 Vectorized Shoreline for Breton Island, Louisiana (Geographic, NAD83) |
