Surface and Meteorological Data of Protodune Dynamics at Helga's Interdune Area, Gobabeb, Namib Desert, Namibia, 12th September 2023
This dataset includes raw point cloud data from repeat terrestrial laser scans (TLS) for early-stage protodunes migrating and eroding on a gravel surface in the Helga's Interdune Area, Gobabeb, Namib Desert, Namibia. As well as the TLS data, additional nearby measurements of the wind speed through a CSAT 3D sonic anemometer and sediment transport using a Sensit along with sediment trap data downwind of the focus protodune.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2025-02-25
Originator
University of Southampton
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Joanna Nield
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School of Geography and Environmental Science
)
Highfield
,
Southampton
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SO17 1BJ
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Originator
University of Oxford
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Giles Wiggs
(
School of Geography and the Environment
)
South Parks Road
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Oxford
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OX1 3QY
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Originator
University of Loughborough
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Matthew Baddock
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Geography and Environment
)
Loughborough
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LE11 3TU
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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- Terrestrial science
- NGDC Deposited Data
- Saltation
- Aeolian
- Lasers
- dataCentre
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- NERC_DDC
- Access constraints
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- Other constraints
- licenceOGL
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
- Other constraints
- Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
- Spatial representation type
- vector Vector
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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NA
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
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NAM
- Date (Revision)
- 2009
- Geographic identifier
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NAMIBIA [id=665000]
- Date (Creation)
- 1979
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- Begin date
- 2023-09-12
- End date
- 2023-09-12
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84 / UTM zone 33S (EPSG::32733)
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- Data
- OnLine resource
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Other
- dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- Leica P50 TLS was used to collect the topographic measurements. The scan resolution varied between 0.8 and 3.1 mm at 10 m. The local coordinate system has been orientated to the wind direction. The dataset has been extracted in 7 boxes to make the data manageable and details of the coordinates for each box are included in the dataset. Main scans focused on box 1 with occasional scans of the whole area. Details on the specific scan times and resolutions for each TLS are included in the dataset. The CSAT 3D sonic anemometer was positioned 0.24 m above the surface, approximately 560 m southwest of the scanned area. The Sensit was positioned at the ground surface. Bagnold style sediment traps were placed alongside or directly downwind of the focus protodune during the measurement period. See Delorme et al. (2023; doi:10.1029/2022GL101553) for more details of similar methodology.
- File identifier
- 2f1caed6-f339-77c7-e063-0937940a99f1 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth
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NOTTINGHAM
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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
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NG12 5GG
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United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
- Dataset URI
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608345
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