Aerial Video Survey of the Lower Mississippi River on DVDs Year One Report: 1996 Baton Rouge to the Gulf of Mexico

by Karen A. Westphal, Robert Paulsell and Prakash Narayanan
Louisiana State University, School of the Coast and Environment Special Programs and Louisiana Geological Survey

Disclaimer

This report was prepared under a contract between Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Applied and Educational Oil Spill Research and Development Program (OSRADP). The contents of this document do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office—Office of the Governor, those of the Louisiana Applied and Educational Oil Spill Research and Development Program, or Louisiana State University, nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsements or recommendation for use by the state of Louisiana.

Citation

Westphal, K.A., Paulsell, R., Narayanan, P. 2003. 1996 Aerial video survey of the lower Mississippi River on DVDs Year One Report: 1996 Baton Rouge to the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana State University. Louisiana Applied and Educational Oil Spill Research and Development Program, OSRADP Technical Report Series ________, 18 p.

Acknowledgments

We wish to thank Chris E. Zganjar, Karen E. Ramsey, Jennifer Maclean, Paul Connor, and Jaime Phillippe of Louisiana State University, Center for Coastal, Energy & Environmental Research; Spencer Knoebel of Industrial Helicopters, Inc.; and Tommy Mahon of Exxon USA for their support and services during the 1996 video acquisition process.

Audio information quoted regarding revetments, facilities, lights, and mile markers was taken from St. Francisville to Pilottown: The Lower, Lower Mississippi River by Captain Michael Sanders, and the 1992 Flood Control and Navigation Maps of the Mississippi River by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Lower Mississippi Valley District. The information was updated for this report to reflect information from the 1998 Flood Control and Navigation Maps of the Mississippi River by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Lower Mississippi Valley District.