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thumbnail image An Assessment of NASA's Airborne Topographic Mapper Instrument for Beach Topographic Mapping at Duck, North Carolina (PDF) assesses differences in Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) beach surveys in comparison to ground surveys using a number of accepted data collection methods. The ability of the ATM to produce consistent repeatable measurements is also evaluated.
thumbnail image An Evaluation of Hurricane-Induced Erosion Along the North Carolina Coast Using Airborne LIDAR (PDF) looks at changes in beach volume for the entire state after the passage of Hurricane Bonnie. A zipped version containing the report and its associated plates is also available to download.

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