Beach Profile Analysis System (BPAS). Volume I. System Overview.

Abstract

This report describes the structure and use of the Beach Profile Analysis System (BPAS), a package of computer programs derived from computer programs developed over several years as part of the Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) Beach Evaluation Program (BEP). In the course of the BEP, approximately 20,000 coastal profile line surveys were collected over a 15-year period at 23 localities along the U.S. east coast, gulf coast, west coast, and the coast of Lake Michigan (for background information, see Galvin, 1969). These computer programs were also used to analyze laboratory survey data collected during CERC's Laboratory Effects in Beach Studies (LEBS) project. The BPAS, the primary function of which is to compute and display shoreline and volmetric changes, was designed to analyze beach profile data and laboratory profile data with the objective of obtaining conclusions of value in coastal engineering. Volumes II to VIII are User's Guides.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA119447

Entities

People

  • Allan E. Dewall
  • Marilyn V. Fleming

Organizations

  • Coastal Engineering Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coastal Engineering
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Elevation
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Information Science
  • Operating Systems
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Regression Analysis
  • Shore Protection
  • Shores
  • Standards
  • Surveys
  • System Software

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Computer Science.