1998 February LiDAR survey of Assateague Island National Seashore
NASA Observational Sciences Branch and USGS Center for Coastal & Watershed Studies. 2002. 1998 February LiDAR survey of Assateague Island National Seashore. National Park Service. Assateague Island National Seashore
Bare-earth GRID elevation data derived from a LIDAR. Grid elevation data derived from a LIDAR survey of Assateague Island National Seashore (ASIS). LIDAR is a form of laser beach mapping which uses a pulsed laser ranging system mounted onboard an aircraft to take high density ground elevation measurements. This data is collected by NASA and sent to USGS for conversion to GeoTiff image files. It is then sent to NPS where it is converted into a grid for use in an ArcGIS software environment with elevation in each cell recorded in meters.
- Type
- Geospatial Dataset
- Authors
- NASA Observational Sciences Branch; USGS Center for Coastal & Watershed Studies
- Date of Issue
- 2002
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- ASIS , NCBN
- Keywords
- Assateague Island National Seashore, Beach Dynamics, Coastal Dynamics, Elevation, Geomorphology, Maryland, Overwash, Sand Dunes, Topography, U.S. Coastilne, Virginia
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Geology and Soils | Geomorphology | Coastal/Oceanographic Features and Processes