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Coastal Hazards: Imagery and Data Sets

AIRBORNE LASER TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING STUDY OF EASTERN BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA WITH APPLICATIONS TO HURRICANE STORM SURGE HAZARD
Web Site:www.ihc.fiu.edu/ihc/research/broward/browardProject.html
This data is a component for the construction of evacuation maps based on hurricane storm surge models such as the NOAA SLOSH model.

CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER: MONITORING AND DATA INDEX
Web Site:www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/MD_index.html#content
Provides links to sites which provide: Oceanic & Atmospheric Monitoring and Data, Precipitation & Temperature, Drought & Soil Moisture Monitoring, Global Climate Data & Graphics and others.

ENVIRONMENTAL SURFACE EXPRESSIONS IN SAR OCEAN IMAGERY
Web Site:http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/sar
A compendium of images and spectra illustrating how spaceborne SAR can reveal unique information on winds, waves, and frontal patterns over the ocean.

EPA: THE NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL DATA CLEARINGHOUSE
Web Site:http://130.11.52.184
The Geospatial Data Clearinghouse is a collection of over 250 spatial data servers, that have digital geographic data primarily for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), image processing systems, and other modelling software.

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS DATA
Web Site:www.dep.state.fl.us/beaches/data/gis-data.htm
GIS data includes: Critical Beach Erosion Areas in Florida, Range Monuments, SBMP Regions and Units, Coastal Construction Control Line, and All Erosion Control Lines currently in effect. The Coast of Florida Study (COFS) cover the Beach Armoring, Building Footprints, Sand Isopaths, and Bathymetry Contours in the nearshore waters of Palm Beach, Broward, and Dade Counties. It also covers the Hard Bottom Areas, Core Boring Locations, and Tracks covering the nearshore of Region 3. Project Aerial Photographs are for Bay and Manatee Counties.

HAZARDSMAPS.GOV
Web Site: www.hazardmaps.gov
FEMA's Mutihazard Mapping Initiative (MMI) is to maintain a living atlas of hazards data and map services for advisory purposes supplied from a network of hazard and base map providers.

AN INTERACTIVE GLOBAL MAP OF SEA FLOOR TOPOGRAPHY BASED ON SATELLITE ALTIMETRY & SHIP DEPTH SOUNDINGS
Web Site:http://ibis.grdl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/bathy/bathD.pl
The following is an interactive version of the Smith & Sandwell (1997) global ocean bathymetry map, the most complete, high-resolution image of sea floor topography currently available

JAVA APPLETS FOR COASTAL ENGINEERING
Web Site:www.coastal.udel.edu/faculty/rad
Hydrodynamic applets to calculate waves, linear wave kinematics, tidal response of a bay, etc; and coastal process applets to determine beach fill, depth of closure, the risk potential for the Delaware shoreline based on storm parameters, etc.

NASA/CNES TOPEX/POSEIDON ANALYSIS FROM NOAA
Web Site:http://ibis.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/hist/index.html
Altimeter analyses from the NASA/CNES Topex/Poseidon altimeter mission (1992-present) are provided in terms of sea level deviations and anomalies. Data are available along the satellite track, in gridded form, or as color maps.

NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF GEOLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHS
Web Site:www.bgs.ac.uk/photoarchive/home.html
The British Geological Survey houses the National Archive of Geological Photographs (NAGP), comprising in excess of 100,000 fully-described images dedicated to the theme of earth sciences. The site is searchable by keyword, or may be browsed by theme.

NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTER
Web Site:http://seaboard.ndbc.noaa.gov/stations/shtml/Maps/wrldmap.shtml
Find real-time and archived data from moored buoys, C-man stations and ship observations. Data typically includes wind, wave and weather measurements.

NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL DATA CENTER
Web Site:www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html
Offers data and maps in these categories: bathymetry & topography, geomagnetism, habitats, hazards, ocean geosciences, paleoclimate and others.

NCEP: LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY
Web Site:www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics.shtml
Provides images from the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) including GOES 8/10 Full-Disk and Composite Images, GOES 8/10 Hurricane Sectors,METEOSAT Fulldisk Global Satellite Images and Real-Time Geostationary and Polar Imagery. Also links to NOAA's Satellite Services Division for East and Central Pacific Imagery and Atlantic and Caribbean Imagery.

NOAA: NEAR-REAL TIME SEA LEVEL
Web Site:http://ibis.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/near_rt/index.html
Altimeter data, processed daily within 1-2 days of acquisition, are available for operational sea level monitoring and assimilation in NOAA ocean models to improve forecasts of El Nino, hurricane intensity, and coastal circulation.

NOAA: PHOTO LIBRARY
Web Site:www.photolib.noaa.gov
The NOAA collection contains over 20,000 images that includes weather and space images, shores and coastal seas, and marine species images ranging from whales to the plankton.

SUSPENDED-SEDIMENT DATABASE
Web Site:http://webserver.cr.usgs.gov/sediment
Output from data retrieval provides daily mean streamflow discharge in cubic feet per second, daily mean suspended-sediment concentration in milligrams per liter, and suspended sediment discharge in metric tons per day (megagrams per day). Ancillary data included in this database are: water temperature, bed material size distribution, and suspended-sediment size distribution.

TIDES ONLINE
Web Site:http://tidesonline.nos.noaa.gov/index.html
Presents current and historical data from active stations in the National Water Level Observation Network and those in a storm surge mode.

TROPICAL EVENTS
Web Site:www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Tropical/Atlantic
OSEI tropical cyclone products (TRC) include multichannel color composite imagery and animations of tropical cyclones at different stages of development from polar (N4, N5, N6) and geostationary (G8, G10) satellites.

TSUNAMI EVENT DATABASE
Web Site:www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/tsevsrch.shtml
The tsunami databases consists of two files: the event database and the runup database. The event database contains information on the tsunami such as the cause, source location, magnitude and intensity, etc. The runup database contains information on locations where tsunami effects occurred.

TSUNAMI RESEARCH PROGRAM (NOAA)
Web Site:www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami
Components of this site include DART (Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis), Tsunami Inundation Mapping Efforts (TIME), PDC/MHPCC Tsunami Modeling, Tsunami Events and Data, Modeling & Forecasting.

VISIBLE EARTH (NASA)
Web Site:http://visibleearth.nasa.gov
A searchable directory of over 2,400 images, visualizations, and animations of the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, land surface, oceans and more.

WORLD DATA CENTER FOR MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS
Web Site:www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/aboutmgg/wdcmgg.html
Includes descriptions and analyses of seafloor samples, deep drilling data, underway geophysical measurements, and derived gridded data sets. Data are contributed by sources from around the world and were originally collected for a variety of purposes, including academic research, international and interdisciplinary scientific projects, commercial mineral resource evaluations, defense, and government environmental baseline studies.

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