COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY DATA - AN AID TO THE COASTAL ENGINEER
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Keywords

survey
beach
current
datum

How to Cite

Studds, R. F. A. (1950). COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY DATA - AN AID TO THE COASTAL ENGINEER. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v1.11

Abstract

In its long career of surveying and chartering the coastal waters of the United States and possessions, a career which dates back to the early part of the nineteenth century, the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey has been associated with the problems of the coastal engineer. Its successive hydrographic and topographic surveys of the coastal regions furnish basic data for the study of changes in the coastline and adjacent underwater topography and the means to arrest these changes; its tide and current surveys provide the fundamental data necessary in the design of waterfront structures and in harbor improvement; and its geodetic control surveys provide an accurate base for the preliminary study and final construction plans for large-scale improvement projects. To a lesser extent the geomagnetic and seismologic data of the Bureau have also been used by the coastal engineer.
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