36e76d59-93ad-4365-e063-3050940a2f8c English dataset British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-05-10 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608425 WGS 84 (EPSG::4326) Surface and meteorological data of barchan and protodune dynamics at the Huab Dune Field, Skeleton Coast, Namibia from 2014 to 2023 2025-06-03 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608425 This dataset includes raw point cloud and gridded data from repeat terrestrial laser scans (TLS) for measuring barchans and protodunes in the Huab Dune Field, Huab River Valley, Skeleton Coast, Namibia. As well as the TLS data, additional measurements include wind speed, wind direction and sediment transport for some of the measurement period. Joanna Nield University of Southampton School of Geography and Environmental Science Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ not available originator Giles Wiggs University of Oxford School of Geography and the Environment South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3QY not available originator Matthew Baddock University of Loughborough Geography and Environment Loughborough LE11 3TU not available originator Natasha Wallum University of Oxford not available originator Rosemary A. Huck University of Oxford not available originator Pauline Delorme École Normale Supérieure - PSL not available originator Martin H.T. Hipondoka University of Namibia not available originator Peter R. Morgan University of Southampton not available originator Jerome R. Mayaud University of Oxford not available originator Valentina Flores Aqueveque University of Chile not available originator John A. 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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" English geoscientificInformation ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision NA ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision NAM British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation NAMIBIA [id=665000] 12.5000 14.5000 -21.5000 -18.0000 2014-09-01 2023-09-16 Microsoft Excel (XLSX) witheld Text file (TXT) witheld XYZ witheld MATLAB (MAT) witheld Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item188501 WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Data download https://doi.org/10.5285/f7d18a98-9cd5-4b35-b42d-ed9f5afd944d WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Nield, J. M., Wiggs, G. F. S., Baddock, M. C., Hipondoka, M. H. T., Delorme, P., Morgan, P. R., Mayaud, J. R., Huck, R. A., Wallum, N. S., Flores Aqueveque, V., Gillies, J. A. (2025). Surface and Meteorological Data of Barchan and Protodune Dynamics at the Huab Dune Field, Skeleton Coast, Namibia from 2014 to 2023 [Data set]. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/F7D18A98-9CD5-4B35-B42D-ED9F5AFD944D. (2025). Surface and meteorological data of barchan and protodune dynamics at the Huab Dune Field, Skeleton Coast, Namibia from 2014 to 2023. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/f7d18a98-9cd5-4b35-b42d-ed9f5afd944d information dataset dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 publication See the referenced specification false Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false Leica TLS was used to collect the topographic measurements of barchans and protodunes. The scan resolution varied between 0.8 and 3.1 mm at 10 m. The local coordinate system has been orientated north. The dataset has been extracted in a box around the bedform in the year it was measured and details of the lower x and y coordinates for each box are included in the dataset. Data collected over several years were merged using fixed rebar poles. See Delorme et al. (2023; doi:10.1029/2022GL101553) for more details of similar methodology.