GEER/RAPID Facility: Hurricane Florence Geotechnical Damage UAV and LiDAR Data

GEER conducted a post-Hurricane Florence reconnaissance of geotechnical infrastructure like slopes, levees, dams, roadways, and bridges. The GEER team collected UAV data on a slope failure in Elizabethtown and earth dam overtopping at Boiling Springs. This data, authored by Navid Jafari and last updated in February 2025, consists of UAV imagery and terrestrial LiDAR for forensic analyses.

Use Cases

• Analyze slope failure mechanisms based on UAV imagery collected in Elizabethtown.
• Study dam overtopping and erosion patterns based on terrestrial LiDAR data from Boiling Springs.
• Assess roadway washout and bridge damage based on the described reconnaissance observations.
• Model geotechnical infrastructure resilience based on the collected post-hurricane imagery and point cloud data.

Strengths

• Data was collected by the GEER team, a recognized entity for geotechnical extreme event reconnaissance.
• Focuses on specific, documented events: a slope failure in Elizabethtown and dam overtopping at Boiling Springs.
• Includes multiple data modalities: UAV imagery and terrestrial LiDAR.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality, file formats, and size require manual inspection after download.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

GEER (Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance) team, via the DesignSafe Data Depot Repository.

Collection Method

Post-event reconnaissance using UAV and terrestrial LiDAR.

Time Range

Following Hurricane Florence (2018).

Freshness

Last updated 2025-02-10 23:02:38; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Elizabethtown and Boiling Springs, North Carolina, USA.