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ID N-O1-05-LA
Abstract United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. Chief Scientists: Robert Kayen, Brian Collins. Terrestrial LIDAR data (LIDAR) of field activity N-O1-05-LA in New Orleans, Louisiana from 10/09/2005 to 10/14/2005
Organization United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
Project/Theme Terrestrial Lidar Imagery of Failed Levees During Hurricane Katrina
Chief Scientist Robert Kayen
Brian Collins
Activity Type Terrestrial LIDAR
Area of Operation
New Orleans, Louisiana
Location map N-O1-05-LA location map of where navigation equipment operated
Bounding Coordinates 33.25000
-94.75000     -88.25000
28.25000
Dates 10/09/2005 (JD 282) to 10/14/2005 (JD 287)
Analog Materials No analog holdings.
Index map

N-O1-05-LA map of where navigation equipment operated

Information Specialist
Brian Collins
Crew
Rob Kayen Chief Scientist, USGS
Brian Collins Civil Engineer, UC Berkeley, USGS
Equipment Used
LIDAR
Purpose
Document and analyze geotechnical and structural deformations of failed levee
sections that occurred during Hurricane Katrina and that led to the flooding of
New Orleans.
Information to be Derived
Field observations and topographic data
Summary
Field observations of failure modes and 144 individual terrestrial lidar scans,
each containing several million data points
Publications
Kayen, Robert, Collins, Brian and Gibbons, Helen, 2006, USGS Scientists
Investigate New Orleans Levees Broken by Hurricane Katrina, Sound Waves,
Dec. 2005/Jan. 2006: available on line at:
http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2006/01/

Seed, R.B., Bea, Abdelmalak, R.I., Athanasopoulos, A.G., Boutwell, G.P.,
Bray, J.D., Briaud, J.-L., Cheung, C., Cobos-Roa, D., Cohen-Waeber, J.,
Collins, B.D., Ehrensing, L, Farber, D., Hanemann, M., Harder, L.F.,
Inkabi, K.S., Kammerer, A.M., Daradeniz, D., Kayen, R.E., Moss, R.E.S.,
Nicks, J., Nimmala, S., Pestana, J.M., Porter, J., Rhee, K., Riemer, M.F.,
Roberts, K., Rogers, J.D., Storesund, R., Govindasamy, A.V., Vera-Grunauer,
X., Wartman, J.E., Watkins, C.M., Wenk, Jr., E., Yim, S.C., 2006.
Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Levee Systems in Hurricane
Katrina on August 29, 2005, Center for Information Technology Research in the
Interest of Society, University of California, Berkeley, Vol. 1 (690p) and Vol. 2 (517p), available on line at:
"http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~new_orleans/
Got Help? For N-O1-05-LA, we would appreciate any information on -- analog materials, contract, days at sea, dive count, funding, kms of navigation, national plan, NGDC Info, notes, owner, platform, ports, project number, scanned materials, seismic description, station count, station description, submersible, tabulated info.

 

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