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The United States Army Corps of Engineers is a federal agency with a mission to provide vital public engineering services in peace and war to strengthen the nation's security, energize the economy, and reduce risks from disasters. It is also a major U.S. Army organization employing some 38,000 ...
A survey that provides coordinates (horizontal or vertical) of points to which supplementary surveys are adjusted.
Industry:Engineering
A topographic map of the bed of the ocean, with depths indicated by contours (isobaths) drawn at regular intervals.
Industry:Engineering
Material placed on a beach to renourish eroding shores, usually pumped by dredge but sometimes delivered by trucks.
Industry:Engineering
Environmental conditions, e.g. waves, currents, drifts, etc. used as boundary input to physical or numerical models
Industry:Engineering
The time necessary for steady-state wave conditions to develop for a given wind velocity over a given fetch length.
Industry:Engineering
Roughly triangular promontory of land jutting into the sea, often consisting of mobile material, i.e. a beach form.
Industry:Engineering
The development of strategic, long-term and sustainable coastal defense and land-use policy within a sediment cell.
Industry:Engineering
One of the horizontal or gently inclined sediment layers deposited in front of the advancing forest beds of a delta.
Industry:Engineering
The tidal current toward shore or up a tidal stream. Usually associated with the increase in the height of the tide.
Industry:Engineering
Discoloration of surface waters, most frequently in coastal zones, caused by large concentrations of microorganisms.
Industry:Engineering
