A technique for eliminating water returns from lidar beach elevation surveys

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1671-1682

  Yates, Marissa L ^a   Guza, R T ^a   Gutierrez, Roberto ^b   Seymour, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; DUNE SANDS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; IN-SITU; LIDAR DATUM; LIDAR SURVEYS; OCEAN SURFACES; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHTS; SIMPLE METHODS; SPATIAL CHANGES; SUPERELEVATION; TIDE LEVELS; WAVE SETUPS;

BEACHES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURVEYS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRBORNE SENSING; BEACH; DETECTION METHOD; ELEVATION; LIDAR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE RUNUP; WAVE SETUP;

EID: 65549158338     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHO561.1     Document Type: Article

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