USGS CMG N-O1-05-LA Metadata

Document and analyze geotechnical and structural deformations of failed levee
sections that occurred during Hurricane Katrina and that led to the flooding of
New Orleans.

Field observations and topographic data

Field observations of failure modes and 144 individual terrestrial lidar scans,
each containing several million data points

Collins, B.D., Kayen, Robert, Minasian, Diane, and Reiss, Thomas, 2009,
Terrestrial Lidar Datasets of New Orleans, Lousiana, Levee Failures from
Hurricane Katrina, Augusg 29, 2005, U.s. Geological Survey Data Series 470.
URL:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/470/


Kayen, Robert, Collins, Brian and Gibbons, Helen, 2006, USGS Scientists
Investigate New Orleans Levees Broken by Hurricane Katrina, Sound Waves,
Dec. 2005/Jan. 2006: available on line at:
 
http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2006/01/


Seed, R.B., Bea, Abdelmalak, R.I., Athanasopoulos, A.G., Boutwell, G.P.,
Bray, J.D., Briaud, J.-L., Cheung, C., Cobos-Roa, D., Cohen-Waeber, J.,
Collins, B.D., Ehrensing, L, Farber, D., Hanemann, M., Harder, L.F.,
Inkabi, K.S., Kammerer, A.M., Daradeniz, D., Kayen, R.E., Moss, R.E.S.,
Nicks, J., Nimmala, S., Pestana, J.M., Porter, J., Rhee, K., Riemer, M.F.,
Roberts, K., Rogers, J.D., Storesund, R., Govindasamy, A.V., Vera-Grunauer,
X., Wartman, J.E., Watkins, C.M., Wenk, Jr., E., Yim, S.C., 2006.
Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Levee Systems in Hurricane
Katrina on August 29, 2005, Center for Information Technology Research in the
Interest of Society, University of California, Berkeley, Vol. 1 (690p) and Vol. 
2 (517p), available on line at:
 http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~new_orleans/