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How to Download Lots of Lidar on Digital Coast

We’ve changed the way we store our point data so it is compressed and that has allowed us to put the data where you can pick up big chunks at once. 

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Change is Ninety Percent Based on the Data...and the Other Half is Based on Your Interpretation

One thing I see/hear a lot is people getting confused by percentages of change that are quoted to them or people incorrectly stating the percentages of change relating to features in the data they are using.

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Time and Tide Wait for No Man-or Imagery Collection

The tide level when your imagery is acquired may or may not have an influence on what you are trying to capture. Is your feature of interest impacted by the tide?

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The Twelve Days of (Geospatial) Christmas

On the twelfth day of Christmas my geospatial techy gave to me...

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Beach Volume Change Measurements from Lidar- How Close is Close?

I had an interesting call the other day with someone who was inquiring about high accuracy lidar data for looking at beach renourishment volume calculations.

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Sifting Through the Volumes of Hurricane Sandy Post-Storm Data

Wow there is a lot of Post-Sandy data out there!

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Ensuring Your Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, many pointed pictures have surfaced that clearly show the level of destruction that the storm wrought on coastal communities.

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Today’s High Tide is a Flood!!

So when I came to work today, a lot of my work colleagues asked me why the roads on the way to our office were flooded and why the water level in the Cooper River was in the back yard of the Coastal Services Center.  It wasn’t raining, and we weren’t having a major storm.  So what was the deal?

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Hurricane Sandy Geospatial Resources

Hurricane Sandy has given the East Coast quite a wallop.

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ENOW PLUS: Go Fish!

If I’ve learned anything from my Coastal Services Center colleagues this summer, it’s that all data was created for a particular reason. No data set can do it all or should do it all.

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