2016 Airborne Electromagnetic (AEM) Surveys

Several Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) across the state conducted AEM flights in July and early August 2016 using Water Sustainability Fund (WSF) grant dollars awarded in April 2016: Lewis and Clark NRD, Lower Elkhorn NRD, Papio-Missouri River NRD, Lower Platte North NRD, Lower Platte South NRD, Central Platte NRD, Twin Platte NRD, Lower Loup NRD & the BAZILE AREA (Lewis and Clark, Lower Elkhorn, Upper Elkhorn, Lower Niobrara NRDs).  Each NRD had a mix of the following types of surveys flown: block flights (tightly spaced flight lines for determining aquifer boundaries and/or potential groundwater volumes), transect/tie line flights (longer reconnaissance type flight lines), and grid flights (hybrid of reconnaissance and detailed type surveys, aquifer boundary mapping).

ENWRA often works with various cooperating agencies and partners across the state who have similar hydrogeologic assessment goals. The majority of the NRDs who flew AEM surveys in 2016 also formed a cooperative agreement with Water Sustainability Fund (WSF) grant dollars ("https://nrc.nebraska.gov/water-sustainability-fund-0") to build and support the Nebraska GeoCloud, a data storage and visualization platform for interactive mapping, custom profiles, and data access for AEM, CSD test holes, wells, and related geological models of Nebraska.  

 

Interective Map - Find Your Area of Interest:map image of 2016 AEM lines in Nebraska

Lewis and Clark 2016 AEM Survey (See 2018 AEM for updated 2016 data)

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Lower Elkhorn NRD 2016 AEM Survey

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Lower Loup NRD 2016 AEM Survey

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Lower Platte North NRD 2016 AEM Surveys (see 2018 AEM for updated 2016 data)

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Lower Platte South NRD 2016 AEM Survey

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Papio-Missouri River NRD 2016 AEM Survey

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Bazile Groundwater Management Area 2016 AEM Survey

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Twin Platte and Central Platte NRD 2016 AEM Surveys

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