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LiDAR Digital Elevation Model of the Blackwater Estuary, MD, USA in 2004
Citation
Maryland's mapping & GIS data portal. LiDAR Digital Elevation Model of the Blackwater Estuary, MD, USA in 2004. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/6448

Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
This dataset is a LiDAR gridded Digital Elevation Model of the Blackwater Estuary, Maryland, USA in 2004. The data was extracted from MD iMAP webservice (Maryland's mapping & GIS data portal) on 18 Dec 2014 using a mask delineating the Blackwater marshes, but excluding large channels, roads and upland areas used in Schepers et al., 2017. This data is stored here as this data is not available anymore on Maryland's mapping & GIS data portal.

Scope
Themes:
Coastal studies (e.g. shores, estuaries)
Keywords:
Brackish water, Coastal morphology, Marshes, Sea level changes, ANW, USA, Chesapeake Bay

Geographical coverage
ANW, USA, Chesapeake Bay [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
April 2004 - May 2004

Contributor
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Schepers, L. (2017). Spatial patterns and bio-geomorphological effects of vegetation loss in a submerging coastal marsh. PhD Thesis. University of Antwerp, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology: Antwerp. xii, 124 pp., more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: GIS maps
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2020-04-27
Information last updated: 2020-04-28
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