Cliff Erosion Mapping (VIDEO)

University of California - San Diego

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Adam Young, a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, recently published a new large-scale analysis of coastal cliff erosion from San Diego to San Francisco. To analyze the data, Young compared two massive LiDAR data sets, three-dimensional maps of the California coastline, recorded eleven years apart. This video highlights one of the areas he identified with high erosion rates, near San Francisco.

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Adam Young, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego

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