Last year, in the framework of the Deltares-USGS cooperation agreement, a study was performed to demonstrate the applicability of UCIT (a matlab based graphical user interface for coastal analysis) to store, manage, analyze, and access all the information related to the derivation of shorelines from lidar data as part of the USGS national shoreline change project. Recently, it was decided to make all UCIT scripts and data part of OpenEarth.
This year a follow-up sprintsession was held from September 29th to October 1st, 2009, at the Woodshole office of USGS. The main purpose was to add extra data and functionality to UCIT / OpenEarth and to train the USGS staff to use UCIT / OpenEarth.
UCIT currently enables quick browsing through a huge number of US LIDAR transects (as well as Dutch JARKUS transects) and performing various analyses. The next planned step in the Deltares-USGS cooperation agreement is to perform a shoreline analysis along the North Carolina coast.
