In accordance with SO #3423 - The Gulf of America and SO #3424 - Mount McKinley and Landmarks Honoring the Alaskan People, new USGS data releases specific to those named places will utilize the new name Gulf of America and the restored name Mount McKinley. Per USGS practice, historical data will retain the name of the geographic features as they were known at the time the data were originally released.
Data Release
Post-Hurricane Sandy Beach Profile Survey—Fire Island Inlet to Moriches Inlet 2013
By Kathleen E. Wilson1, Cheryl J. Hapke2, Rachel E. Henderson1, Erika E. Lentz2, Jennifer L. Miselis2, and Peter M. Weppler3
1 Cherokee Nations Technologies
2 U.S. Geological Survey
3 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Summary
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contracted a beach survey of Fire Island, New York, from September 17–October 6, 2013, for the purpose of planning a beach reconstruction project following Hurricane Sandy. This dataset contains elevation data of subaerial morphology and nearshore bathymetry collected using real time kinematic global positioning system (RTK-GPS) and hydrography techniques. The data were provided to the U.S. Geological survey to contribute to an existing monitoring dataset of the beach and dune morphology at Fire Island.
Data
| File Name and Description | Metadata (XML format) | Metadata (text format) | Download File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 201310_FIIS_xyz.zip XYZ data – 2013 Post-Sandy Beach Profile Survey |
XYZ_PostSandyProfiles_2013_Metadata.xml | XYZ_PostSandyProfiles_2013_Metadata.txt | 201310_FIIS_xyz.zip (362 KB) |
Figure 1. Data location map.
Suggested Citation
Wilson, K.E., Hapke, C.J., Henderson R.E., Lentz E.E., Miselis, J.L., Weppler, P.M., 2017, Post-Hurricane Sandy beach profile survey—Fire Island Inlet to Moriches Inlet 2013: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7XK8CSR.