Kathryn Campbell

In September of 2016, I was hired by the University of North Georgia to work alongside Dr. Christopher Seminack on a satellite imagery based research project. The ultimate goal for this project is to develop a formula to predict tidal prism based on volume of flood-tidal delta. While working on this project I am analyzing high-resolution true color, false-color infrared, and LIDAR datasets obtained from NOAA, mapping geomorphic features associated with current and former tidal inlets, calculating area and volume of associated geomorphic features, and comparing flood-tidal delta volume with tidal prism. The skillset required to complete this project include a strong working knowledge of ArcGIS and the Microsoft Office Suite (Word and Excel, familiarity with true color imagery, false-color infrared imagery, and LiDAR datasets, the ability to create new shapefiles in ArcGIS, trace polygons over geomorphic features of interest, calculate area and volume of polygons, create a database of flood-tidal delta volumes and associated tidal prism, and perform linear regression in Microsoft Excel.