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Introduction to Lidar

Submitted by luann.dahlman on Wed, 08/04/2021 - 12:40

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Module Description

This course, designed for those curious about what lidar is and why it is useful for management decisions, provides quick and flexible access to several topics needed to understand the lidar landscape. The course features engaging video and audio, optional knowledge checks, a final quiz with certificate, and assistive services for those with disabilities.

External Link

https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/training/intro-lidar.html

Source Organization URL

Introduction to Lidar

Type of Training

Online, Self-Guided

Difficulty Scale

Beginner

Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Highway Resilience: An Implementation Guide

Submitted by nina.hall on Wed, 05/26/2021 - 11:49

This guide is designed to help transportation practitioners understand how and where nature-based and hybrid solutions can be used to improve the resilience of coastal roads and bridges. It summarizes the potential flood-reduction benefits and co-benefits of these strategies, then follows the steps in the project delivery process, providing guidance on considering nature-based solutions in the planning process, conducting site assessments, key engineering and ecological design considerations, permitting approaches, construction considerations, and monitoring and maintenance strategies.

National Marine Ecosystem Status (NaMES)

Marine ecosystems provide food, jobs, security, well-being, and other services to millions of people across the U.S., yet they and the people that rely on them are facing increasingly complex challenges. Tracking the status and trends of ocean and coastal ecosystems is critically important to understand how these ecosystems are changing and to identify potential issues.

RVAgreen 2050 Climate Equity Index

This interactive mapping tool using ESRI technology was created by the City of Richmond Office of Sustainability as part of RVAgreen 2050, the City of Richmond’s equity-centered climate action and resilience planning initiative.

Mapping Social Vulnerabilities to Enhance Resilience in Richmond

Coming to grips with inequity

Located in the rolling hills of the Virginia Piedmont along the James River, Richmond—the state capital—is an historic and diverse city that encompasses a number of unique neighborhoods. Throughout the city's history, discriminatory policies have shaped these neighborhoods, establishing and entrenching inequities among its residents. The legacy of policies that favor one group over another is now a major hurdle that must be cleared in order to build the city's resilience.

Advanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC)

ADCIRC simulates tidal circulation and storm surge propagation over large computational domains, eliminating the need for imposing approximate open-water boundary conditions that can create inaccuracies in model results, while simultaneously providing high resolution in areas of complex shoreline and bathymetry where it is needed to maximize simulation accuracy.

Targeted areas for ADCIRC application include continental shelves, nearshore coastal areas, inlets and estuaries.

Typical ADCIRC applications include the following:

System for Assessing Vulnerability of Species (SAVS)

This tool was developed to quantify the relative impact of expected climate change effects for terrestrial vertebrate species. The SAVS uses 22 criteria related to expected response or vulnerability of species in a questionnaire to provide a framework for assessing vulnerability to climate change. The questionnaire is completed using information gathered from published materials, personal knowledge, or expert consultation. Scores generated can be used to inform management planning.

SURGEDAT

This website has archived the location and height of more than 700 tropical surge events around the world since 1880 and identified more than 8,000 unique high water marks from tropical surges along the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coasts.

These data were mostly built from scientific sources, including government reports, historic maps, academic papers, and books, but anecdotal sources—such as thousands of pages of newspapers—provide data for smaller-magnitude storm surges in the earlier part of the record.

PINEMAP Decision Support System

PINEMAP—which stands for "Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation Project"—contains 13 tools related to planted loblolly pine forests in the southeastern United States across four categories: Environment, Establishment, Management, and Production.

Community Health and Resource Management (CHARM)

CHARM is a mapping application that gives local officials, stakeholders, and citizens the power to map and analyze growth with real-time feedback. When used with the weTable—a low cost, do-it-yourself, interactive tabletop approach for public engagement (instructions provided on the CHARM website)—it forms a powerful planning tool for engaging the public and gathering their values about the community’s future. The application is supported with a library of mapping data, including data on urbanization, storm surges, conservation, public facilities, and coastal resources.

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