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Spatial Extent of Data

USGS Data Source

USGS Thesaurus Keywords

image analysis, hazards, image collections, landslides, coastal processes, remote sensing, topography, aerial photography

ISO 19115 Topic Category

transportation, geoscientificInformation, elevation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover

Other Subject Keywords

Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, human responses to coastal change, agents of coastal change, geomorphology, coastal zone management, PCMSC, aerial and satellite photography, CMHRP, coastal sediment budget, coastal landslides, anthropogenic agents of coastal change, hazards and disasters, effects of coastal change, coastal processes, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, coastal change hazards topics, Bathymetry and Elevation, coastal landsliding, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program

Place Keywords

Big Sur, United States, California, Central California Coastal, Monterey, State of California, Monterey County

Structure-from-motion point clouds of an approximately 13 km long section of the Big Sur coast, California for 33 flights between 2017-01-25 and 2023-06-08

Presented here are point clouds derived from aerial photography collected by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) using an oblique plane-mounted camera system, covering approximately 13 km of the coastline near Big Sur, California. These point clouds are referenced to previously published lidar data and contain RGB information as well as XYZ. Point cloud coordinates are in NAD83 UTM Zone 10 meters. Imagery was collected with a Nikon D800 camera in RAW format and processed using structure-from-motion photogrammetry with Agisoft PhotoScan version 1.7 through 2.0. Point clouds were clipped to an area of interest (AOI) using LASTools. The AOI was created in ArcGIS Pro 3.3.1.

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Author(s) Jonathan Warrick orcid, Andrew C Ritchie orcid
Publication Date 2025-09-03
Beginning Date of Data 2017-01-25
Ending Date of Data 2023-06-08
Data Contact
PCMSC Science Data Coordinator
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P13FEC44
Citation Warrick, J., and Ritchie, A.C., 2025, Structure-from-motion point clouds of an approximately 13 km long section of the Big Sur coast, California for 33 flights between 2017-01-25 and 2023-06-08: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13FEC44.
Metadata Contact
PCMSC Science Data Coordinator
Metadata Date 2025-09-03
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Harvest Source: Coastal and Marine Geoscience Data System
Harvest Date: 2025-09-10T04:16:29.483Z