High-precision, High-accuracy Elevation Data Acquisition and Geospatial Mapping for the Charlestown Navy Yard at Boston National Historical Park to Inform Climate Change Adaptation Planning for the National Park Service
Heavren S. 2024. High-precision, High-accuracy Elevation Data Acquisition and Geospatial Mapping for the Charlestown Navy Yard at Boston National Historical Park to Inform Climate Change Adaptation Planning for the National Park Service. National Park Service. Kingston, RI
The data was collected to be used for climate change resiliency and sea level rise planning projects. The elevation data is useful for informing planning and engineering initiatives. The dataset includes 36 panoramic, full-dome scans of the buildings, cultural resources, and other features within the National Park Service boundaries at the Charlestown Navy Yard. The scans exist as point cloud files in Trimble Business Center. Each scan has 40 panoramic photographs associated with it. The points have been colorized based off the panoramic photographs and have been categoriezed into regions, such as buildings, ground, poles, and trees. A layer called Building_elevations was created and includes selected points from building doorways, windows, and basement windows. Each point in the layer has elevation data and latitude and longitude data associated with it. The layer is exportable into ArcGIS Pro as a point layer. The data was collected usinig meters using NAVD88. Control points were set using the BOHA base station, a R12i GNSS receiver, and a prism. Scans were set so that points would be 2 cm apart at 20 m with a scanning distance of 200 m and a scanning radius of 1 m from the scanner. The scans were performed using the coarse resolution, stored in Trimble Access, and exported to Trimble Business Center.
- Type
- Geospatial Dataset
- Authors
- Heavren, Sarah
- Date of Issue
- 2024
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- BOST
- Keywords
- Boston, Charlestown Navay Yard, climate change, elevation, MA