Module 4: Coastal Flooding

Well we can't win them all! That is the major lesson from this lab. Attempts to follow the directions were fraught with misaligned data and things that just did not make sense. Luckily I was not alone in my efforts coming to bitter ends. The assignment was to conduct a analysis on storm surge in Florida, by comparing a traditional USGS DEM and a DEM derived from LiDAR. We were to compare the differences in results between the two elevation models assuming a storm surge of 1 meter. The layout below is my best attempt to show this.