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• LIDAR data processing
• Topographic analysis
• Measuring the change
• Photo gallery

Ground photography illustrates the impact of dune migration at a local scale:

• Jockey's Ridge: postcard mailed on Sept. 3, 1912
• Jockey's Ridge at its best in 1950

• Airphoto 1949
• JR Aerial photo 1932 (courtesy USACE FRF Duck,NC)
• JR Aerial photo 1932 north(courtesy USACE FRF Duck,NC)
• Barchans at Currituck 1947 and 1955

• Fall 2005
• Summer 2005
• Spring 2006
• Spring 2010
  

• East dune: minigolf castle: 2000|| 2002|| 2003

• South dune migrating towards homes and road and its removal in 2003:
  House threatened by the South dune(add the photo with road)
  House in 2003 - dune is being moved away
  Removal of sand is almost complete

• East dune has almost reached the road: 2003
  2003
  New fences installed

• Fences and christmas trees are used to restrict the dune movement: Central section

• Main ridge
  Main ridge, note the newly forming east-facing slip face on the ridge just west of the main ridge (is it growing from the sand moved from the sound dune to the northern section of the park?)

Wright brothers' photos, including the woods at Kitty Hawk taken over by dunes