Tuesday, October 12, 2010

NGS Represents NOAA's National Ocean Service at Living Shoreline Monitoring Project

Over the past year, the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) has worked closely with the NOAA Restoration Center in designing and implementing a study to monitor the evolution of a large living shoreline project along the shores of the Potomac River at Piscataway Park, about ten nautical miles south of Washington DC. On October 12, NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenko joined and U.S. National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis in a celebration dedicating the successful completion of the 2,800-foot living shoreline restoration project at Piscataway Park. During the event, NGS answered questions and demonstrated the terrestrial Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) dataset it acquired as part of this project using a virtual fly-over. NGS is using the site to test instrumentation and methodologies, as well as to provide guidelines for evaluating the success of living-shoreline restoration. For more information, contact Galen Scott.