Elevation contours of beach topography and nearshore bathymetry of Lake Superior at Minnesota Point, Duluth, MN, from hydrographic survey August 2019

Description

The elevation contours in this dataset have a 2-foot (ft) interval and were derived from a digital elevation model (DEM) of beach topography and nearshore bathymetry of Lake Superior at Minnesota Point, Duluth, Minnesota. The DEM has a 10-meter (32.8084 ft) cell size and was created from LiDAR data representing beach topography and sonar data representing bathymetry to a distance of approximately 1.3 kilometers (0.8 miles) offshore. LiDAR data were collected August 10, 2019 using a boat-mounted Optech ILRIS scanner and methodology similar to that described by Huizinga and Wagner (2019). Multi-beam sonar data were collected August 7-11, 2019 using an R2Sonic 2024 sonar unit and methodology similar to that described by Richards and Huizinga (2018). Single-beam sonar data were collected August 27-28, 2019 using a CEESCOPE echosounder and methodology similar to that described by Wilson and Richards (2006).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5e389bcce4b0a79317df576f.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9GXT1X1

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  • limnology
  • sonar
  • bathymetry
  • elevation
  • lake-superior
  • digital-elevation-models
  • bathymetry-and-elevation
  • dem
  • great-lakes
  • duluth
  • las
  • inlandwaters
  • lidar
  • hydroacoustic
  • usgs-5e389bcce4b0a79317df576f
  • superior
  • southwestern-lake-superior
  • xyz

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