Representative Beach Profile Generator

Abstract

The purpose of this Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering Technical Note (CHETN) is to introduce an Esri ArcGIS Pro ArcPy Toolbox entitled Representative Beach Profile Generator (RBPG) that generates a single representative profile for a given study area based on elevation profiles. The toolbox aligns and averages input elevation profiles into a single profile based upon a chosen alignment feature. Furthermore, the toolbox allows the user to create maximum and minimum trapezoidal profile approximations for use within numerical models such as Storm-Induced BEAch CHange (SBEACH) and Beach-fx. This CHETN presents a brief description of the toolbox methods and includes a short demonstration of the toolbox's application to help familiarize the user with inputs, outputs, and possible uses. The RBPG toolbox is available for public download at the link where this paper is hosted with the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center library services (http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/46916).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 20, 2023
Accession Number
AD1199577

Entities

People

  • Scott L. Spurgeon

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army
  • Army Corps Of Engineers
  • Best Practices
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Coastal Management
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Digital Elevation Models
  • Elevation
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Extraction
  • Feature Extraction
  • Generators
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Geometry
  • High Resolution
  • North Carolina
  • United States

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  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Database Systems and Applications