Quantifying rapid changes in coastal topography using modern mapping techniques and geographic information system

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-11

  Mitasova, Helena ^a   Drake, Thomas G ^a   Bernstein, David ^b   Harmon, Russell S ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wall College of Business   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beach erosion; Digital elevation model; Kinematic Global Positioning Systems (GPS); Light detection and ranging (Lidar); Sand dune; Topographic analysis

Indexed keywords

BEACH EROSION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; GIS; GPS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 1942466461     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/10.1.1     Document Type: Article

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