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  • Surveys for Beach Renourishment and Shoreline Protection

    Credits: 2 PDH

    PDH Course Description:

    This course provides guidance in performing coastal engineering surveys in support of sand transport studies, berm movement studies, beach renourishment placement measurement and payment, offshore borrow area dredging, jetty and breakwater construction, underwater investigation, and construction of shore and hurricane protection structures.

    Guidance in this course is intended to assist project planners and designers in reaching a common knowledge base for specifying effective survey data collection programs. Also covered is a summary on traditional, as well as newer, technologies for coastal surveying. Recommended accuracy standards and procedural methods are outlined for various coastal engineering projects.

    Topics:

    • Introduction to Coastal Surveys
    • General Procedures for Beach Surveys
    • Differential Leveling Methods
    • Total Station and RTK GPS Methods
    • Use of the Coastal Amphibious Research Buggy
    • Survey Sled Method
    • Nearshore and Offshore Profile Acoustic Measurement Methods
    • LIDAR Bathymetry and Topography Methods
    • Use of Survey Vessels

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    Intended Audience: This course is intended for professional land surveyors, civil, coastal, environmental, water resource, and other engineering professionals whose job description may require an intermediate knowledge of coastal surveying principles.
    Publication Source: USACE

    Donald Parnell, PE

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