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1996 Fall East Coast NOAA/NASA Airborne LiDAR Assessment of Coastal Erosion (ALACE) Project for the US Coastline
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This data set includes data collected from 1996-2000 and covers the states of South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia.
Laser beach mapping uses a pulsed laser ranging system mounted onboard an aircraft to measure ground
elevation and coastal topography. The laser emits laser beams at high frequency and is directed downward at the
earth's surface through a port opening in the bottom of the aircraft's fuselage. The laser system records the
time difference between emission of the laser beam and the reception of the reflected laser signal in the
aircraft. The aircraft travels over the beach at approximately 60 meters per second while surveying from
the low water line to the landward base of the sand dunes.
Original contact information:
Contact Org: NOAA Office for Coastal Management
Phone: 843-740-1202
Email: coastal.info@noaa.gov
This data was collected as part of an effort to map beach topography and assess beach change along the US coastline.
Airborne Topographic Mapper LIDAR data were collected in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Office for Coastal Management, the NASA Wallops Flight Facility and the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center.
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NOAA Office for Coastal Management
(843) 740-1202
2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
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(843) 740-1202
2234 South Hobson Ave
Charleston
SC
29405-2413
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EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION > TOPOGRAPHICAL RELIEF MAPS
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY
EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > COASTAL ELEVATION
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CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > MARYLAND
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > NORTH CAROLINA
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > SOUTH CAROLINA
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > VIRGINIA
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DOC/NOAA/NOS/OCM > Office of Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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Cite As: Office for Coastal Management, [Date of Access]: 1996 Fall East Coast NOAA/NASA Airborne LiDAR Assessment of Coastal Erosion (ALACE) Project for the US Coastline [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/48147.
NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose.
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Access Constraints: None
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Use Constraints: This data was collected for the purposes of research. Any conclusions drawn from analysis of this information
are not the responsibility of NOAA or the Office for Coastal Management. This data is likely to contain returns
from the water surface and vegetation. No processing has been done to remove returns from water or vegetation.
Users should be aware that temporal changes may have occurred since this data set was collected and some parts
of this data may no longer represent actual surface conditions. Users should not use this data for critical
applications without a full awareness of its limitations.
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Distribution Liability: This data was collected for the purposes of research. Any conclusions drawn from analysis of this information are not the responsibility
of NOAA, the Office for Coastal Management, or its partners.
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NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP)
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48147
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/48147.pdf
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1996-10-09
1996-10-16
This data set was collected with a LIDAR (LIght Detection And Ranging) instrument designed and developed by the Observational
Sciences Branch (OSB) of NASA at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The instrument, originally designed for mapping ice sheets
in Greenland, is called the Airborne Topographic Mapper or ATM. The ATM II (the latest version), operates with a Spectra Physics
laser transmitter, which provides a 7 nanoseconds long, 250 microjoules pulse at a frequency-doubled wavelength of 523 nanometers
in the blue-green spectral region. The laser transmitter can function at pulse rates from 2 to 10 kilohertz (kHz). The laser system
with a separate cooling unit weighs approximately 45 kilograms (kg) and requires approximately 15 amperes of power at 115 volts.
The transmitted laser pulse is reflected to the surface of the earth with the aid of a small folding mirror mounted on the back of a
secondary mirror of a rotating scan mirror assembly mounted directly in front of the telescope. The scan mirror, which is rotated at 20
hertz, is comprised of a section of round aluminum stock, machined to a specific off-nadir angle. A scan mirror with the off-nadir
angle of 15 degrees was utilized, producing an elliptical scan pattern with a swath width equal to 50 percent of the approximately
700-meter aircraft altitude. The reflected laser pulse is transmitted to a photo-multiplier assembly that consists of a lens, a
narrow bandpass filter, and a single photomultiplier tube.
Note: The Spatial Reference section of this document may lack fully FGDC-compliant information regarding projection parameters
(i.e., Central meridian, false Northing, etc.). The State Plane or UTM Zone will be supplied, and the corresponding parameters can be
found in Appendix C of: Snyder, John, 1987, Map Projections, a Working Manual (U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395):
Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office.
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NOAA Office for Coastal Management
(843) 740-1202
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Accuracy
Raw elevation measurements have been determined to be vertically accurate to within 15 cm. Processing steps (datum conversion,
projection, grid interpolation, etc.) introduce additional error factors which have not been tested at the time of this publication.
Horizontal Positional Accuracy
The ATM LIDAR elevation points are known to be horizontally accurate to +/- 0.8 meters at an aircraft altitude of 700 meters.
Vertical Positional Accuracy
The ATM LIDAR elevation measurements have been found to be within +/- 15 centimeters of each other in successive and overlapping
passes of the same area. In comparisons of LIDAR data for a small geographic region with various ground surveys the differences
are between +/- 15 to 20 centimeters. The accuracy of the majority of the data is estimated to be consistent with the above
stated results. At this time, there has been no large scale verification of the data.
Completeness Report
All elevation data points that appeared to be within a reasonable vertical range were retained, and other points were thrown away.
This filtering process was performed 'by eye'.
Conceptual Consistency
Not applicable
Lidar data were collected and processed to qfit format by NASA.
1996-08-01T00:00:00
The vertical values in this data set have been filtered through visual inspection to find abnormally high and abnormally low values. In addition, this data was processed using a spatial filtering program that identifies and discards outlier elevation measurements. This program reads each elevation measurement within a file and identifies "spatially close" points (i.e. those neighboring points within a fixed radius of the point). The mean and standard deviation is calculated using the elevations of these points. If the elevation difference from the mean of the point under consideration is more than 2 standard deviations and greater than a defined distance the point is discarded.
Data were converted from Qfit format to LAS version 1.2. The passive channel (greyscale) was put in the RGB channels by replication of the value.
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