Airborne Lidar Surveys and Regional Sediment Management

• Main Authors: Wozencraft, Jennifer M, Irish, Jennifer L
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Subjects: AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE; AIRBORNE; BATHYMETRY; COASTAL REGIONS; DATA BASES; DATA PROCESSING; DEMONSTRATIONS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING; INSHORE AREAS; LIDAR; MANAGEMENT; Optical Detection and Detectors; OPTICAL RADAR; Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; SCALE; SEDIMENTS; SHALLOW WATER; SHOALS(SCANNING HYDROGRAPHIC OPERATIONAL AIRBORNE LIDAR SURVEY); SURVEYS; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHY

Airborne lidar is an ideal tool for surveying regional scale projects. It is the only tool that can economically provide synoptic bathymetric and topographic data on a regional scale, which is the type of data required for nearshore coastal studies like the Regional Sediment Management Demonstration Program (RSMDP) of the US Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District. The goal of this program is to link changes in nearshore terrain with hydrodynamic forcing. The SHOALS (Scanning Hydrographic Operational Airborne Lidar Survey) system has been used to collect regional data for the demonstration program. SHOALS data gives a three-dimensional quantification of a region at a particular point in time. Comparison of SHOALS data sets quantifies changes that have occurred between surveys. This paper gives an overview of SHOALS, the RSMDP and the SHOALS data sets that have been collected for the region. An example of how SHOALS is used throughout the region is given by detailing SHOALS data analysis at East Pass, Florida, USA. Pub. in Proceedings, 2000 EARSeL: Lidar Remote Sensing of Land and Sea, EARSeL Held 14-16 Jun 2000 in Dresden, Germany. The original document contains color images.