NATIONAL COASTAL MAPPING PROGRAM—RHODE ISLAND TO MAINE

Project Details

CLIENT
GeoMap Technologies Inc.

LOCATION
Eastern U.S. coastline from Rhode Island to Maine

 

Initiated in 2004, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) National Coastal Mapping Program (NCMP) is designed to provide high-resolution elevation and imagery data along U.S. shorelines on a recurring basis. The NCMP is executed by the Joint Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX), using its in-house survey capability CHARTS system.

In the spring and early summer of 2010, Woolpert collected airborne LiDAR and imagery data within a 1,500 meter (m) buffer, 500 m inland and 1,000 m seaward of the shoreline along the coasts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. The task order consisted of bathymetric and topographic LiDAR, RGB imagery and hyperspectral imagery data acquisition; processing and production of derivative products. Woolpert deployed the AHAB HawkEye II for simultaneous collection of the bathymetric and topographic LiDAR.