Data Release

EAARL Coastal Topography—Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, March 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 March 14-15, 2006 airborne lidar survey for the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, and Ship Island, Mississippi through Orange Beach, 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

06LTS02_first_return.zip
Lidar-derived first-return elevation data for the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, and Ship Island, Mississippi through Orange Beach, Alabama (.xyz)

06LTS02_first_return_metadata.xml

06LTS02_first_return_metadata.txt

06LTS02_first_return.zip
(185 MB)

06LTS02_last_return.zip
Lidar-derived last-return elevation data for the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, and Ship Island, Mississippi through Orange Beach, Alabama (.xyz)

06LTS02_last_return_metadata.xml

06LTS02_last_return_metadata.txt

06LTS02_last_return.zip
(227 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 and Alabama, March 2006: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7BZ6443.