LIDAR-derived national shoreline: Empirical and stochastic uncertainty analyses

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn , Issue SPEC. ISSUE 62, 2011, Pages 62-74

  White, Stephen A ^a   Parrish, Christopher E ^a   Calder, Brian R ^b   Pe'Eri, Shachak ^b   Rzhanov, Yuri ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

empirical measurements; Monte Carlo simulation; National shoreline; stochastic modeling; topographic LIDAR; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BEACH MORPHOLOGY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GEODETIC NETWORK; LIDAR; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHORELINE; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79955603392     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/SI-62-7     Document Type: Article

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