Coastal Protection and
Restoration Authority

Technical Resources

Throughout the 2023 Coastal Master Plan development process, a variety of technical resources are created to document changes, improvements, and analysis that support development of the master plan document and appendices. As additional materials become available, this page will be updated.

For more information about the topics below, please see the Outreach  page for related webinars.  To access the programming source code for the 2023 Coastal Master Plan ICM subroutines, please see CPRA’s GitHub repository.  If you have any questions regarding the technical resources, please email masterplan@la.gov.

MODEL IMPROVEMENTS  

• Barrier Islands BITI Module & ICM-BI Update (.pdf)
• Coastal Louisiana Risk Assessment (CLARA) Model Summary Report (.pdf)
• Determining Subsidence Rates for use in Predictive Modeling (.pdf)
• Habitat Suitability Index Model Improvements (.pdf)
• Habitat Suitability Index Model Improvement Recommendations (.pdf)
• High Tide Flooding Model Improvements (.pdf)
• ICM-Barrier Island Model Improvements (.pdf)
• ICM-Wetlands, Vegetation, and Soils Model Improvements (.pdf)
• Planning Tool Overview (.pdf)
• Population Projections for the 2023 Coastal Master Plan (.pdf)
• Risk Assessment Model Improvements (.pdf)
• Storm Selection for the ICM (.pdf)
• Storm Surge & Waves Models (.pdf)