High Accuracy Elevation Data Collection

Project Investigator: Greg Desmond Project Personnel: Ed Cyran, Gary Freeman, Rusty Georges, Bob Glover, Chuck Henkle, Doug Nedrich, Susan Price, Gordon Shupe Project Start Date: 1995 End Date: -- Recent Funding: (FY05) ENP CESI, USACE CERP/MAP, USGS GE PES, SFWMD Proposals Work Plans Project Summaries Data Metadata Publications

Summary

The objective of this project is to model sheet flow over the extremely low relief terrain of South Florida.

For more information, please see the Tides and Inflows in the Mangrove Ecotone (TIME) Model Development Project Webpage.

Remote sensing, image processing, geographic information system technologies and current research into hydrological, climatological, and ecological applications of these technologies will be employed to derive scientific information used in describing, understanding, and modeling vegetation patterns and hydrologic processes for the purposes of natural resource decision making and restoration monitoring in South Florida.

The overall task has been divided into three primary components with specific objectives and general classes of clients. For each component, we will systematically develop, evaluate, and apply the techniques which yield the most appropriate, spatially distributed information possible on the vegetation, climate, and hydrologic variables of interest to South Florida project scientists. The study designs for each component include the combination of field campaigns (to provide information for data calibration and accuracy assessment) and extensive techniques development using state-of-the-art hardware, software, and physical process modeling. Collected data will be processed (e.g., to mitigate atmospheric effects and conduct data fusion to infer biophysical fields) to maximize their information content. Collaborative use of the resulting information products will allow us to evaluate their utility for process modeling and environmental monitoring while facilitating outreach and technology transfer.

Proposals

• 1998
• 1999

Work Plans

• 2003
• 2004
• 2005

Project Summaries

• 2001
• 2002
• 2003
• 2004
• 2005
• 2006

Data

• Elevation Data (from the data exchange pages)

Metadata

• High Accuracy Elevation Data Collection Project (project metadata)
• High Accuracy Elevation Data - Lake Okeechobee Littoral Zone (data set metadata)
• High Accuracy Elevation Data - truck (data set metadata)
• High Accuracy Elevation Data - Water Conservation Areas and Greater Everglades Region (data set metadata)

Publications

Abstracts

• A Prototype Electronic Atlas Utilizing Static Maps (from the GEER Conference, June 2006)
• High Accuracy Elevation Data
• Measuring and Mapping the Topography of the Florida Everglades for Ecosystem Restoration (from the GEER Conference, April 2003)
• The South Florida High-Accuracy Elevation Data Collection Project (from the South Florida Restoration Science Forum, May 1999)
• Topography of the Florida Everglades (from the GEER Conference, December, 2000)

Fact Sheets

• Measuring and Mapping the Topography of the Florida Everglades for Ecosystem Restoration (fact sheet 021-03)
• South Florida High-Accuracy Elevation Data Collection Project (fact sheet 162-96)