Bayou Corne sinkhole : control measurements of State Highway 70 in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, tech summary.

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• Creators:
  Kent, Joshua
• Corporate Creators:
  Louisiana Transportation Research Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Sinkholes
  • Global Positioning System
  • Hazard mitigation
  • Data collection
  • Geotechnical engineering
  • Monitoring
  • Subgrade (Pavements)
• Publication/ Report Number:
  State Project No. 30000960 ; LTRC Project No. 13-8GT
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  Louisiana
• Corporate Publisher:
  Louisiana Transportation Research Center
• Abstract:
  The sinkhole located in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, threatens the stability of Highway 70, a state maintained route. In order to ; mitigate the potential damaging eff ects of the sinkhole on this infrastructure, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and ; Development (DOTD) has requested accurate and precise measurements of control points along the aff ected portion of the highway. ; The Center for GeoInformatics (C4G) at Louisiana State University (LSU) was contracted to measure and collect horizontal and ; vertical positions at various locations along the highway using Global Positioning Systems (GPS) enhanced by a real-time network ; (RTN) of continuously operating reference stations (CORS) maintained by C4G.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26933/dot_26933_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 124.99 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f2774dfebdb4d8ba72cf54d042e9ba745626d7b3690d69346f270bdaf4006b41