3D bathymetric surfaces of low- and high-relief sites from the coral reef flat off Waiakane, Molokai

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3D bathymetric surfaces of low- and high-relief sites from the coral reef flat off Waiakane, Molokai, were created using structure-from-motion (SfM) techniques. The two study sites are located approximately 640 m from shore and approximately 20 m apart in the alongshore direction. At each site, an approximate 12-meter diameter area was imaged in three passes by a swimmer using a handheld digital camera. These images were fed into Structure-from-Motion (SfM) software to produce high-resolution (fine-scale), accurate, and precise topographic point clouds with sub-centimeter accuracy for both the low- and high-relief sites. In addition, a subset of a previously published (Logan and Storlazzi, 2022), coarser-scale, 3D bathymetric surface of the reef flat immediately surrounding the two study sites is included. The point clouds are formatted in LAS (.las) format. These data accompany a manuscript by Norris and others (2023) [Norris, B.K., Storlazzi, C.D., Pomeroy, A.W.M., Rosenberger, K.J., Logan, J.B., and Cheriton, O.M., 2023, Combining field observations and high-resolution numerical modeling to demonstrate the effect of coral reef roughness on turbulence and its implications for reef restoration design: Coastal Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2023.104331].

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Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6202e938d34e622189dcecf1.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HNLI7Y

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  • usgs-6202e938d34e622189dcecf1
  • topography
  • coastal-processes
  • geomorphology
  • image-mosaics
  • aerial-photography
  • state-of-hawaii
  • sfm
  • aerial-and-satellite-photography
  • pacific-coastal-and-marine-science-center
  • elevation
  • u-s-geological-survey
  • bathymetry-and-elevation
  • altimetry
  • structure-from-motion
  • geospatial-datasets
  • unmanned-aerial-system
  • geoscientificinformation
  • chmrp
  • pcmsc
  • remote-sensing
  • coastal-and-marine-hazards-and-resources-program
  • usgs
  • uas
  • topographic-maps
  • waiakane
  • molokai
  • photography
  • orthophotography

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