Climate Change and Useful Links

Flood Risk and Storm Surge

• The Chronicle Herald: EMO to get new flood-risk tool from NSCC
• LiDAR technology to help city planners build efficiently in Nova Scotia | The Chronicle Herald
• Rain storm causes flooding, wind damage in northeast N.S. | CTV Atlantic News
• Photos reveal extent of flood damage in Atlantic Canada - The Globe and Mail
• Extreme rainfall brings flood of problems - Prince Edward Island - CBC News
• N.S. blizzard causes storm surges and flooding at Halifax waterfront - CBC Player
• Timelapse of blizzard causing flooding in Liverpool, N.S. - Nova Scotia - CBC News
• Lidar processing and Flood Risk Mapping for Coastal Areas in the District of Lunenburg, Town and District of Yarmouth, Amherst, Count Cumberland, Wolfville and Windsor

Publications

Integrated River and Coastal Hydrodynamic Flood Risk Mapping of the LaHave River Estuary and Town of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada (http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/6/3/517)

Webster, T., McGuigan, K., Collins, K., MacDonald, C. (2014). Integrated River and Coastal hydrodynamic Flood Risk mapping for the LaHave River estuary and Town of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia Canada.Water, 6(3), Open Access ISSN 2073-4441; doi: 10.3390/w6030517 www.mdpi.com/journal/water pp. 517-546.

Flood Risk Mapping Using LiDAR for Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (pdf)

Webster, Tim. L. 2010. Flood Risk Mapping Using LiDAR for Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada. Open Access Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292. Vol. 2; doi:10.3390/rs2092060, pp. 2060-2082.

Water Modeler: A Component of a Coastal Zone Decision Support System to Generate Flood-risk Maps From Storm Surge Events and Sea-level Rise (pdf)

Webster, T.L., Mosher, R., Pearson, M. 2008. Water Modeler: A component of a Coastal Zone Decision Support System to generate Flood-Risk Maps from Storm Surge Events and Sea-Level Rise. Geomatica. Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 393-406.

Flood-risk mapping for storm-surge events and sea-level rise using lidar for southeast New Brunswick (pdf)

Webster, T.L., Forbes, D.L., MacKinnon, E. and Roberts, D. 2006. Floodrisk mapping for storm-surge events and sea-level rise in Southeast New Brunswick. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 194-211.

Mapping Storm Surge flood Risk Using a LIDAR-Derived DEM (pdf)

Webster, T.L., Dickie, S., O’Reilly, C., Forbes, D., Parkes, G., Poole, D., and Quinn, R. 2003. Mapping Storm Surge Flood Risk using a LIDAR-Derived DEM. Elevation, a supplement to Geospatial Solutions and GPS World, pp. 4-9.

Using Airborne Lidar to Map Exposure of Coastal Areas in Maritime Canada to Flooding From Storm-surge Events: A Review of Recent Experience (pdf)

Webster, T.L. Forbes, D.L., Dickie, S., and Shreenan, R. 2004. Using topographic lidar to map flood risk from storm-surge events for Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 54-76.

Topo-Bathy Lidar

• AGRG Bathy Lidar Research
• Maps of Coastal Flood Risk from Sea-level Rise and Storm Surge in Selected Areas of Nova Scotia [1:10 000]
  
• Construction and Analysis of Flood Risk Maps for Select Coastal Communities in Nova Scotia
  
• Integrated River and Coastal Hydrodynamic Flood Risk Mapping
  
• River Flood Risk Study of the Nappan River Incorporating Climate Change
  
• An Evaluation of Flood Risk to Infrastructure Across the Chignecto Isthmus

Publications

Optimization of Data Collection and Refinement of Post-processing Techniques for Maritime Canada’s First Shallow Water Topographic-bathymetric Lidar Survey (pdf)

Webster, T., McGuigan, K., Crowell, N., Collins, K. and MacDonald, C. (2016). Optimization of data collection and refinement of post-processing techniques for Maritime Canada’s first shallow water topographic-bathymetric lidar survey. Journal of Coastal Research. Special issue on Advances in Topo-Bathymetric lidar. Vol 76: doi:10.2112/SI76-004, pp. 31-43.

Tabusintac 2014 Topo-Bathymetric Lidar & Eelgrass Mapping Report (pdf)

Webster, T., McGuigan, K., Crowell, N., Collins, K., MacDonald, C. 2014. Tabusintac 2014 Topo-Bathymetric Lidar & Eelgrass Mapping Report. Technical report, Applied Geomatics Research Group, NSCC Middleton, NS.

ACOA 2014 Bathymetric Lidar Pilot Project Report (pdf)

Webster, T., McGuigan, K., Crowell, N., Collins, K., MacDonald, C. 2014. ACOA 2014 Bathymetric Lidar Pilot Project Report: Cape John, John Bay, and Little Harbour, Nova Scotia. Technical report, Applied Geomatics Research Group, NSCC Middleton, NS.

Acquisition and processing of topo-bathymetric lidar for Isle Madame in support of the World Class Tanker Safety Initiative (pdf)

Webster, T., McGuigan, K., Crowell, N., Collins, K., MacDonald, C. 2014. Acquisition and processing of topo-bathymetric lidar for Isle Madame in support of the World Class Tanker Safety Initiative, Applied Geomatics Research Group, NSCC Middleton, NS.

Cocagne Bay 2014 Topo-Bathymetric Lidar Mapping Report (pdf)

Webster, T., McGuigan, K., Collins, K.,Crowell, N., MacDonald, C., and Roscoe, M. 2014. Cocagne Bay 2014 TopoBathymetric Lidar Mapping Report. Technical report, Applied Geomatics Research Group, NSCC Middleton, NS.