Subsidence is the underlying cause of coastal land loss in Louisiana. C4G continuously collaborates with local, regional, state, and federal partners to assess the impact of subsidence, thereby engineering effective solutions to preserve life and property.
Subsidence has disrupted our ability to accurately determine levee heights, secure evacuation routes, design effective coastal restoration strategies, model storm surge, and more…
The Center for GeoInformatics utilizes the following fields of research in its efforts to accomplish its mission as the vanguard in providing and ensuring an accurate, precise, and consistent geographic reference framework for the State.
- GeoInformatics
- Geodesy
- Global Navigation Satellite Systems
- Spatial analysis
- Remote sensing
- Photogrammetry
- Tectonic subsidence
- Plate tectonics
- GIS – geographical information science
- Web mapping
- Cartography
Sustainability is dependent on the maintenance of this framework, the foundation of engineering design. The C4G strives to utilize the positional data collected over time to produce an exceptional level of research and service to the State for mitigating the hazards attributed to subsidence.