Beach Nourishment Planning Using Internet Mapping

The location of offshore sand resources for beach nourishment is a high priority coastal management issue in the Southeast region of the United States. As such, beach nourishment has become a major driving force in the development of the Ocean Planning Information System (OPIS). OPIS is a regional, Web-based, ocean resource and policy mapping tool that provides the coastal management community with access to on-line maps, spatial data, and regulatory information. Several key natural resource, coastal hazards, and conflicting use spatial data layers, among others, provide the foundation for a wide range of coastal and ocean analyses. However, the types of analyses associated with the advanced planning of beach nourishment activities required the acquisition of additional geological, physical, and socioeconomic data layers. Although countless sediment texture and grain size analyses had been conducted to satisfy a wide range of initiatives within the Southeast, these data were distributed among several agencies in a variety of formats and were typically very localized. Still, the regional depiction of available sand resources was considered critical to overall product functionality. Therefore, the NOAA Coastal Services Center selected those data sets that were most appropriate for inclusion and, based on this list, created a geographic representation of offshore sand resources for the Southeastern U.S.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1061/40640(305)20
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780784406403
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2002 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Cohen, Kimberly A
• Conference:
  • First International Symposium on Carbonate Sand Beaches
  • Location: Key Largo Florida, United States
  • Date: 2000-12-5 to 2000-12-8
• Publication Date: 2002

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 251-260
• Monograph Title: Carbonate Beaches 2000

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Beaches; Coastal engineering; Digital maps; Environmental engineering; Geospatial data; Ocean engineering; Sandy soils
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Environment; Geotechnology; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01881262
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784406403
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Apr 25 2023 4:33PM