Data Release

EAARL Coastal Topography—Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama September 2006

By Joseph Long, Karen Morgan, and Kara Doran

USGS, St. Petersburg, Florida

Summary

This dataset, prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, provides first and last return elevation data collected during a September 20–22, 2006 airborne lidar survey for the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, and Cat Island, Mississippi, through Dauphin Island, Alabama. Elevation measurements were collected over the area using the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL), a pulsed laser ranging system mounted onboard an aircraft to measure ground elevation, vegetation canopy, and coastal topography.

Data

File Name and Description Metadata (XML format) Metadata (text format) Download

06LTS04_first_return.zip
Lidar-derived first-return elevation data for Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, and Cat Island, Mississippi, through Dauphin Island, Alabama.

06LTS04_first_return_metadata.xml

06LTS04_first_return_metadata.txt

06LTS04_first_return.zip
(115 MB)

06LTS04_last_return.zip
Lidar-derived last-return elevation data for Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, and Cat Island, Mississippi, through Dauphin Island, Alabama.

06LTS04_last_return_metadata.xml

06LTS04_last_return_metadata.txt

06LTS04_last_return.zip
(101 MB)

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Figure 1. Location map.

Suggested Citation

Long, J.W., Morgan, K.L.M., and Doran, K.S., 2016, EAARL Coastal Topography—Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama September 2006: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7765CF4.