NOAA_NCEI sponsored a project to adapt an existing computer model for assessing living shoreline construction suitability. The model was applied to three specific coastal areas in Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, and an interactive decision support tool was developed. The project was last updated in May 2021.
Use Cases
- Assessing site suitability for living shoreline construction based on GIS and remote sensing data.
- Rapid evaluation of coastal areas for nature-based restoration projects using the developed decision support tool.
- Comparing environmental characteristics across multiple Gulf of Mexico water bodies for planning purposes.
Strengths
- Model applied to three distinct coastal areas: Perdido Bay/Wolf Bay/Ono Island complex, Lake Pontchartrain, and Galveston Bay.
- Includes an interactive decision support tool for rapid site assessment.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Last updated 2021-05-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- NOAA_NCEI via NASA Earthdata
- Collection Method
- Adaptation of an existing computer model using a GIS and remote sensing-based approach.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2021-05-01 00:00:00.
- Geography
- Perdido Bay/Wolf Bay/Ono Island complex in coastal Alabama; Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana; and Galveston Bay, Texas within the Gulf of Mexico.