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Data Release
Beach Profile Data Collected From Madeira Beach, Florida
By Jenna A. Brown,1 Justin J. Birchler,1 David M. Thompson,1 Joseph W. Long,2 and Alexander C. Seymour1
1 U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, St. Petersburg, Florida
2 Formerly U.S. Geological Survey
Summary
This dataset, prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, provides beach profile data collected at Madeira Beach, Florida. Since 2016, data were collected by a walking person equipped with a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and a GPS antenna affixed to a surveying backpack. The horizontal position data are given in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projected coordinate system, Zone 17 North (17N), referenced to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83); the elevation data are referenced to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88), GEOID12B.
Note: This data release was versioned on July 30th, 2025. Please see the Suggested Citation section for details.
Data
Figure 1. Regional map showing the survey area at Madeira Beach, Florida.
Suggested Citation
Brown, J.A., Birchler, J.J., Thompson, D.M., Long, J.W., and Seymour, A.C., 2018, Beach profile data collected from Madeira Beach, FL (ver. 6.0, July 2025): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7T43S94.
First posted March 14, 2018
Revised October 9, 2020
Revised May 31, 2022
Revised June 5, 2023
Revised April 15, 2024
Revised July 30, 2025