Researchers mount LiDAR scanners onto trucks, ATVs, or drones and then traverse the coast. The scanners send out roughly 500,000 light pulses per second, which…
Young calls Scripps's work one of the most detailed data sets ever collected on California's coastline, and says it could be vital to how the state addresses sea level rise in the futureCalifornia's coastline is constantly changing and a group of scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography is keeping a laser-focused eye on those changes thanks to some pretty advanced technology.
"LiDAR stands for light detection and ranging," said Young."It's essentially a laser mapping system." Researchers take that detailed map and compare it to previous scans of the same area to detect even the smallest changes in our coastal bluffs because small changes could be a sign of something bigger to come."A landslide, for example, can be a series of events," said Young. "So, a landslide can be active over a period of weeks or days or months."
"We want to use this information to build better models to help predict how our coastline is going to evolve in the future."
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