{"id":773411,"date":"2026-07-21T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=773411"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:10:47","slug":"north-carolina-drone-pilot-maps-sea-swallowed-homes","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/north-carolina-drone-pilot-maps-sea-swallowed-homes","title":{"rendered":"In North Carolina, a Drone Pilot Maps the Coast as the Sea Swallows Homes"},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[475792,141,40532,426321],"industry":[],"esri-blog-category":[481502,478662],"esri_blog_department":[478242,478212],"class_list":["post-773411","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-change-detection","tag-drones","tag-monitoring","tag-north-carolina","esri-blog-category-flooding","esri-blog-category-sea-level-rise","esri_blog_department-public-safety","esri_blog_department-resilience"],"acf":{"video_source":"1_0kip9u7h","video_start":"","video_stop":"","short_description":"As coastal erosion takes homes in some Outer Banks neighborhoods in North Carolina, a GIS analyst keeps watch with a drone.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"<div><span lang=\"EN\">In just six months, 19 homes in a small stretch of beach in the Outer Banks were consumed by the sea. A county GIS analyst is keeping watch on the dramatic changes to this popular beach by flying a drone and processing imagery to compare, keeping an interactive record of the swift coastal erosion happening there.<\/span><\/div>\r\n<strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Coastal erosion is transforming parts of the Outer Banks faster than traditional methods can monitor.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Capturing drone imagery, a county GIS analyst records the changes quickly, showing shoreline loss.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>The imagery also supports beach nourishment projects and drives community engagement.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Large, colorful homes propped up on tall stilts dot much of the 120 miles of \u00a0North Carolina\u2019s skinny and sandy Outer Banks. The coastal homes have long faced bright blue waves largely undeterred, with the stilts dug in deep enough to keep the structures standing amid swells and storms. There have been some exceptions, though, in recent years. Along a short stretch of coastline in the village of Rodanthe, between May 2020 and November 2024, 11 houses shattered into the roiling water and littered the beach with dangerous debris.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rising seas, strong waves, fierce winds, and sinking land are all contributing to coastal erosion. In some places, the edge of the beach has shrunk by more than 10 feet (3 meters) annually.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the pace and scale of recent damage here is new, and alarming.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between September 15 and October 28 last year, 15 homes were lost\u2014as many as five in one day. And they were lost in the village of Buxton, a half-hour drive south of Rodanthe, where houses hadn\u2019t typically succumbed to the waves. Another four fell in February 2026. In early June, one more collapsed bringing the total so far to 20 homes lost in Buxton since September 2025.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis was drastic, even for us,\u201d said Kristen Stilson, a geographic information system (GIS) analyst for Dare County, North Carolina. \u201cI think that shocked a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When hurricane-force winds, high waves, and even an extreme snowstorm bore down on the coast, the houses on stilts\u2014standing on increasingly weakened sand\u2014had little left to do but collapse.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around the same time the houses began collapsing, Stilson received Federal Aviation Administration \u00a0certification to fly the GIS department\u2019s new DJI Matrice 350 RTK drone. She flew her first flight on October 8 to collect data and document just how the coasts of Buxton and Rodanthe had changed.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThese weren\u2019t condemned houses. They were perfectly safe houses,\u201d she said.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As more homes in those two areas fall into the sea and off the map, concerned residents face two options: relocation or acquisition. They can seek to have their home, already raised onto stilts, moved further back or to another location, or bought out and removed. Both take a few years from start to finish\u2014and that\u2019s if there\u2019s federal funding available. Many property owners, and their houses, don\u2019t have that much time.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[773418,773415,773412,773413,773414]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Buying Time<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only thing that can buy more time is beach nourishment. Sand from elsewhere nearby is pumped in to fill in the eroding beach. It comes at a cost of roughly $10 million per mile, according to Dare County\u2019s own estimates, and more in high-erosion areas like Rodanthe. The goal of beach nourishment has been to bolster the buffer between the water and North Carolina Highway 12, the primary road into and out of Dare County.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inevitably, though, the coast will continue to erode. Every five years, the beach will need to be renourished.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The houses that fall don\u2019t simply float out to sea. The current brings the houses back to the beach in pieces. The National Park Service, which manages the beach, picks up those pieces every day\u2014old septic systems, kitchen utensils, washing machines, board game pieces, insulation, drywall, concrete pools, and more. It\u2019s costly to clean up and a risk to beach visitors, including the many tourists who flock to the Outer Banks each year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Capturing the Changing Coastline <\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state had captured high-resolution aerial imagery of the Outer Banks from aircraft every four years, sometimes more often if the county paid for the flight. Because of the time it takes to process imagery, Dare County would get the data nearly a year after it was captured. And that data would be quickly outdated\u2014the sand constantly shifts, roads get washed out, and entirely new islands form and disappear in less than a year.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The county\u2019s two-person GIS team had long prioritized collecting imagery, needing a better way to stay up to date with land changes in between state surveys. Now, the drone has become vital. Flying it, though, comes with its own challenges.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Outer Banks\u2014where the Wright brothers launched the first flight\u2014is famously windy, and air traffic includes low-flying military jets returning to or departing from one of the coastal military bases. The beach is also categorized as a national seashore, managed by the National Park Service, which prohibits drone launches on the shore.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, Stilson coordinates her launches on private property with the property-owner\u2019s approval. \u00a0Many enthusiastically offer their properties after she explains the work she\u2019s conducting to show dramatic changes on the shore.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The concern from residents is palpable. At a community meeting in September 2025, one resident likened the sound of a collapsing home to ribs being pried open in an emergency room. Another resident, Brian Harris of Buxton, expressed resignation that more houses would fall into the sea well before any solutions were found.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA whole lot of effort went into trying to get ahead of [shoreline loss],\u201d Harris said. \u201cIt happened so quick.\u201d He hasn\u2019t personally lost a home to the erosion, but one that had been in his wife\u2019s family succumbed to the waves. Harris recalled the feeling of watching it fall, and with it so many memories.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe drone footage is really important,\u201d he said, noting how the recording raises attention from lawmakers and researchers to find solutions.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[773439,773441,773440,773438]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mapping an Interactive View of the Shore<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stilson built an <a href=\"https:\/\/gis.darecountync.gov\/hierosion\/\">interactive sliding view of the coast<\/a> using the drone-captured imagery that had been processed with GIS technology. She debuted the app in February, showing just how much was lost to coastal erosion in such a short amount of time. The online viewer compares before-and-after dates\u2014for example, what the coastline looked like on October 8, 2025, versus February 4, 2026.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople needed to see it,\u201d Stilson said. In those swipes back and forth, the changes are unmistakable. The houses disappear and the water creeps closer to the next row of homes that were never intended to be waterfront properties.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the first day it was publicized, the app was viewed 2,000 times. That\u2019s as much as some Dare County maps are seen the entire year, Stilson said.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever since, drone data has been in high demand. Requests have come in from the tax, planning, and grants departments, and county manager\u2019s office. Stilson also plans to document the beach nourishment project, before and after.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u2018Just Get Up There\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, she flies Buxton at least once a month, and Rodanthe, too, where the danger of loss is higher. She documents other areas of Dare County quarterly.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI don\u2019t hear around here, \u2018what is GIS?\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cPeople are starting to see how useful it is.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Globally, nearly a quarter of all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/marine-science\/articles\/10.3389\/fmars.2023.1270490\/full\">sandy beaches across all five continents are losing more than a foot and a half of ground each year<\/a>. GIS maps and analysis of drone footage provide a way to quantify the change and the success of mitigation measures. \u201cYou don\u2019t need a big drone. Just get up there and start collecting the imagery,\u201d she said.<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/industries\/emergency-management\/solutions\/disaster-resilience\">communities use GIS to understand risks and design strategies to mitigate impacts.<\/a><\/p>"}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Drone Pilot Maps Coastal Erosion as the Sea Swallows Homes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As coastal erosion takes homes in some Outer Banks neighborhoods in North Carolina, a GIS analyst keeps watch with a drone.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/north-carolina-drone-pilot-maps-sea-swallowed-homes\" 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