Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

2005

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Roberts, Charles

Abstract

A new technique was devised that produces a LIDAR based predevelopment Digital Elevation Model and offers a more superior visualization, of the natural landscape prior to development, than the Bare Earth Model produced by Florida International University's Hurricane Center. Two locations in southeastern Florida have been chosen for this study. The first site is utilized as a control for testing the model and contains a present day ridge system that runs north and south through the Boca Raton cemetery. The second site is a paleowatershed, the Yamato Marsh which was located in Delray Beach. Modeling of the marsh site will assist in delineating surficial geomorphic features before they were anthropogenically altered. The predevelopment Digital Elevation Model successfully represents human derived land-use changes and defines the watershed boundaries of the historic Yamato Marsh.

Extent

109 p.

Comments

FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2005.|Charles E. Schmidt College of Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Identifier

FADT13307

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