Hurricane Sandy Resilience and Recovery Efforts: Using critical elevation data to protect park resources
Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network. 2014. Hurricane Sandy Resilience and Recovery Efforts: Using critical elevation data to protect park resources
Three National Parks were particularly affected by Hurricane Sandy: Assateague Island National Seashore, Gateway National Recreation Area, and Fire Island National Seashore. These coastal parks are exceptionally vulnerable to the effects of storms and sea level rise because of their low elevation, the frequency of Atlantic hurricanes, the adjacent shallow continental shelf, and because they are located in an observed “hot spot” of sea level rise in the mid-Atlantic region. Given these vulnerabilities, scientists and managers from the National Park Service (NPS) and other government and academic organizations are working to integrate scientific data into planning for future effects of climate change, including storms like Hurricane Sandy, and to develop comprehensive coastal storm response strategies that will help to protect public safety, property, and natural environments. To accomplish this, NPS staff must have a basic understanding of the techniques anduses for collecting and analyzing elevation data.
- Type
- Resource Brief
- Authors
- Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network
- Date of Issue
- 2014-05
- Units
- ASIS , FIIS , GATE , NCBN
- Keywords
- ASIS, Assateague Island National Seashore, coastal communities, Elevation Data, Elevation mapping, FIIS, Fire Island National Seashore, GATE, Gateway National Recreation Area, Hurricane Sandy, LiDAR, Light Detection and Ranging, NCBN, Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network, Real Time Kinematic Global Positioning System, RTK-GPS, tidal dat