Looking at high tide, sections of marsh now flood. With a foot of sea-level rise, water laps at a few streets. Two feet, and some neighborhoods flood. Three feet, and portions of the evacuation route are awash - all at high water.
No wonder he calls the future view of New Jersey, as envisioned by Rutgers University's new sea-level mapping tool, "disturbing."
"New Jersey's shorelines are heavily developed," said Lathrop, director of the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis at Rutgers. "So we have a lot of infrastructure" - roads, causeways, houses, schools, police stations - "that are potentially in harm's way."
Three years in the making, the tool, available at http://njfloodmapper.org, is based on a sophisticated new mapping device called LIDAR.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/n...ers_disturbing_picture_of_Shore_s_future.html
No wonder he calls the future view of New Jersey, as envisioned by Rutgers University's new sea-level mapping tool, "disturbing."
"New Jersey's shorelines are heavily developed," said Lathrop, director of the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis at Rutgers. "So we have a lot of infrastructure" - roads, causeways, houses, schools, police stations - "that are potentially in harm's way."
Three years in the making, the tool, available at http://njfloodmapper.org, is based on a sophisticated new mapping device called LIDAR.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/n...ers_disturbing_picture_of_Shore_s_future.html
Unless they used a damned crystal ball.