NOAA Office for Coastal Management Coastal Inundation Digital Elevation Model: Massachusetts

Description

These data were created as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management's efforts to create an online mapping viewer called the Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer. It depicts potential sea level rise and its associated impacts on the nation's coastal areas. The purpose of the mapping viewer is to provide coastal managers and scientists with a preliminary look at sea level rise and coastal flooding impacts. The viewer is a screening-level tool that uses nationally consistent data sets and analyses. Data and maps provided can be used at several scales to help gauge trends and prioritize actions for different scenarios. The Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer may be accessed at: https://coast.noaa.gov/slr. This metadata record describes the Massachusetts digital elevation model (DEM), which is a part of a series of DEMs produced for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office for Coastal Management's Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer described above. This DEM includes the best available lidar known to exist at the time of DEM creation that met project specifications. This DEM includes data for Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket, Plymouth, Suffolk, and Norfolk Counties. The DEM was produced from the following lidar data sets: 1. 2013 - 2014 USGS Hurricane Sandy Supplemental for NE (RI, MA, NH) 2. 2011 USGS ARRA Lidar for the Northeast: Massachusetts The DEM is referenced vertically to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88, Geoid12B) with vertical units of meters and horizontally to the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). The resolution of the DEM is approximately 3 meters.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Online Resource https://coast.noaa.gov/slr
0 Online Resource https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/slr
0 Online Resource https://coast.noaa.gov/slr
0 NOAA Office for Coastal Management Home Page https://coast.noaa.gov
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/56910
0 Online Resource https://coast.noaa.gov
0 Online Resource https://coast.noaa.gov/slrdata
0 Online Resource https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/slr
0 Online Resource https://coast.noaa.gov/slrdata
0 Online Resource https://coast.noaa.gov
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocm/dmp/pdf/56910.pdf

Tags

  • digital elevation model
  • topography
  • sea level rise
  • united states of america
  • office of coastal management
  • sea level changes
  • inundation
  • land surface
  • terrain elevation
  • national ocean service
  • essex county
  • continent
  • noaa
  • elevation
  • barnstable county
  • nantucket county
  • bathymetry/topography
  • dem
  • north america
  • doc/noaa/nos/ocm
  • flooding
  • bristol county
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • plymouth county
  • earth science
  • us
  • geomorphic landforms/processes
  • dukes county
  • norfolk county
  • lidar
  • suffolk county
  • coastal processes
  • middlesex county
  • massachusetts
  • digital elevation/terrain model (dem)

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