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Metadata
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ID
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N-O1-05-LA
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Abstract
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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
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Organization
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United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
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Project/Theme
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Terrestrial Lidar Imagery of Failed Levees During Hurricane Katrina
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Chief Scientist
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Robert Kayen
Brian Collins
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Activity Type
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Terrestrial LIDAR
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Area of Operation
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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Location map
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Bounding Coordinates
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33.25000
-94.75000 -88.25000
28.25000
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Dates
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10/09/2005 (JD 282) to 10/14/2005 (JD 287)
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Analog Materials
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No analog holdings.
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Index map
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Information Specialist
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Crew
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Rob Kayen
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Chief Scientist, USGS
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Brian Collins
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Civil Engineer, UC Berkeley, USGS
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Equipment Used
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Purpose
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Document and analyze geotechnical and structural deformations of failed levee
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sections that occurred during Hurricane Katrina and that led to the flooding of
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New Orleans.
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Information to be Derived
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Field observations and topographic data
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Summary
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Field observations of failure modes and 144 individual terrestrial lidar scans,
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each containing several million data points
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Publications
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Kayen, Robert, Collins, Brian and Gibbons, Helen, 2006, USGS Scientists
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Investigate New Orleans Levees Broken by Hurricane Katrina, Sound Waves,
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Dec. 2005/Jan. 2006: available on line at:
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http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2006/01/
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Seed, R.B., Bea, Abdelmalak, R.I., Athanasopoulos, A.G., Boutwell, G.P.,
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Bray, J.D., Briaud, J.-L., Cheung, C., Cobos-Roa, D., Cohen-Waeber, J.,
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Collins, B.D., Ehrensing, L, Farber, D., Hanemann, M., Harder, L.F.,
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Inkabi, K.S., Kammerer, A.M., Daradeniz, D., Kayen, R.E., Moss, R.E.S.,
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Nicks, J., Nimmala, S., Pestana, J.M., Porter, J., Rhee, K., Riemer, M.F.,
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Roberts, K., Rogers, J.D., Storesund, R., Govindasamy, A.V., Vera-Grunauer,
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X., Wartman, J.E., Watkins, C.M., Wenk, Jr., E., Yim, S.C., 2006.
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Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Levee Systems in Hurricane
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Katrina on August 29, 2005, Center for Information Technology Research in the
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Interest of Society, University of California, Berkeley, Vol. 1 (690p) and Vol. 2 (517p), available on line at:
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"http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~new_orleans/
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Got Help?
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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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