Mapping shoreline activity in Louisiana

admin · 06-13-2011, 10:33 AM

By Jeremy Alford

There?s an adage among geographers that you can?t manage the landscape without measuring it first. That?s true of Louisiana?s coastal wetlands, which bear the brunt of 90 percent of the land loss suffered by the continental U.S.

It was with that in mind that the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette produced an unprecedented, multi-layered topography system that not only accurately depicts Louisiana?s coast but also shows 78 years? worth of shoreline activity.? [ Read more ]

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admin Site Admin Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Orleans Posts: 11,971 Blog Entries: 2	Mapping shoreline activity in Louisiana By Jeremy Alford There?s an adage among geographers that you can?t manage the landscape without measuring it first. That?s true of Louisiana?s coastal wetlands, which bear the brunt of 90 percent of the land loss suffered by the continental U.S. It was with that in mind that the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette produced an unprecedented, multi-layered topography system that not only accurately depicts Louisiana?s coast but also shows 78 years? worth of shoreline activity.? [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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