Long-term shoreline change rate transects for the South Carolina coastal region, calculated with and without the proxy-datum bias using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 5.1

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled national shoreline data for more than 20 years to document coastal change and serve the needs of research, management, and the public. Maintaining a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor national shoreline evolution over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers and planners understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release includes two new mean high water (MHW) shorelines extracted from lidar data collected in 2010 and 2017-2018. Previously published historical shorelines for South Carolina (Kratzmann and others, 2017)...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, Atlantic Coast, Baseline, DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, All tags... North America, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, South Carolina, South Carolina, Southeast Atlantic, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, accretion, coastal processes, environment, erosion, erosion, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, long-term change rates, oceans, shoreline accretion, Fewer tags

Ground control points Head of the Meadow Beach, Truro, MA on March 10, 2023

The data in this release re-map the beach and nearshore environment at Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro, MA and provide updated environmental context for the 2020 CoastCam installation that looks out at the coast shared by beachgoers, shorebirds, seals, and sharks. This is related to the field activity 2022-015-FA and a collaboration with the National Park Service at Cape Cod National Seashore to monitor the region that falls within the field of view of CoastCam CACO-01, which are two video cameras aimed at the beach. In March and April 2023, U.S. Geological Survey and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) scientists conducted field surveys to collect topographic and bathymetric data. Images of the beach for...

Categories: Data; Tags: AeroPoint, CMHRP, Cape Cod, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, GPS measurement, All tags... Global Positioning System (GPS) observations, Ground control point, Head of the Meadow Beach, Helikite, Massachusetts, Truro, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, elevation, geolocation measurement, geoscientificInformation, location, oceans, shoreline, Fewer tags

Bathymetric data and grid of offshore Marconi Beach, Wellfleet, MA on March 20, 2023

The data in this release re-map the beach and nearshore environment at Marconi Beach in Wellfleet, MA and provide updated environmental context for the 2021 CoastCam installation that looks out at the coast shared by beachgoers, shorebirds, seals, and sharks. This is related to the field activity 2022-014-FA and a collaboration with the National Park Service at Cape Cod National Seashore to monitor the region that falls within the field of view of CoastCam CACO-02, which are two video cameras aimed at the beach. In March 2023, U.S. Geological Survey and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) scientists conducted field surveys to collect topographic and bathymetric data. Images of the beach for use in structure-from-motion...

Categories: Data; Tags: ASV, CMHRP, Cape Cod, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Marconi Beach, All tags... Massachusetts, National Seashore, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, WHOI, Wellfleet, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Yellowfin, bathymetry, elevation, geoscientificInformation, geospatial data, location, oceans, remote sensing, shoreline, single-beam echo sounder, single-beam echo sounder, Fewer tags

Ground control points Marconi Beach, Wellfleet, MA on March 22, 2023

The data in this release re-map the beach and nearshore environment at Marconi Beach in Wellfleet, MA and provide updated environmental context for the 2021 CoastCam installation that looks out at the coast shared by beachgoers, shorebirds, seals, and sharks. This is related to the field activity 2022-014-FA and a collaboration with the National Park Service at Cape Cod National Seashore to monitor the region that falls within the field of view of CoastCam CACO-02, which are two video cameras aimed at the beach. In March 2023, U.S. Geological Survey and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) scientists conducted field surveys to collect topographic and bathymetric data. Images of the beach for use in structure-from-motion...

Categories: Data; Tags: AeroPoint, CMHRP, Cape Cod, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, GPS measurement, All tags... Global Positioning System (GPS) observations, Ground control point, Helikite, Marconi Beach, Massachusetts, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Wellfleet, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, elevation, geolocation measurement, geoscientificInformation, location, oceans, Fewer tags

Vegetation surveys, ground reference data, and photos collected during uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) operations: Assateague Island National Seashore (ASIS), MD, October 10 - 14, 2022

Low-altitude (70 m above ground level) aerial images were collected over five areas of interest within the northern portion of Assateague Island National Seashore (ASIS) in mid-October, 2022. These images were collected to generate photogrammetric products (e.g. digital surface model (DSM), reflectance orthomosaic) to support science and data needs of National Park managers attempting to locate invasive Phragmites australis expansion. A DJI Matrice 600 uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) was equipped with a MicaSense Altum-PT multispectral camera and a Ricoh GRII true-color RGB camera to collect images simultaneously with sufficient overlap for photogrammetric processing. Ground control points (GCPs), black and white...

Categories: Data; Tags: ASIS, Assateague Island National Seashore, Berlin, CMHRP, CSV, All tags... Carlson SurvCE, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Field activity 2022-030-FA, GPS, Global Positioning System, Maryland, Spectra Precision SP80, U.S. Geological Survey, USA, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, biota, elevation, environment, field notes, geoscientificInformation, location, navigational data, oceans, percent cover, quadrat, vegetation, vegetation height, vegetation survey, vegetation types, Fewer tags

Multispectral aerial imagery collected during uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) operations: Assateague Island National Seashore (ASIS), MD, October 10 - 14, 2022

Low-altitude (70 m above ground level) aerial images were collected over five areas of interest within the northern portion of Assateague Island National Seashore (ASIS) in mid-October, 2022. These images were collected to generate photogrammetric products (e.g. digital surface model (DSM), reflectance orthomosaic) to support science and data needs of National Park managers attempting to locate invasive Phragmites australis expansion. A DJI Matrice 600 uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) was equipped with a MicaSense Altum-PT multispectral camera and a Ricoh GRII true-color RGB camera to collect images simultaneously with sufficient overlap for photogrammetric processing. Ground control points (GCPs), black and white...

Categories: Data, Image; Tags: ASIS, Altum, Assateague Island National Seashore, Berlin, CMHRP, All tags... Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, DJI Matrice 600 hexacopter, Field activity 2022-030-FA, Image, Maryland, MicaSense Altum-PT, TIFF, U.S. Geological Survey, UAS, USA, USGS, Uncrewed aircraft system, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, aerial imagery, aerial photography, barrier island, beach, completed, drone, geoscientificInformation, geotagged photos, image collections, location, low-altitude aerial imagery, multi-band, multispectral, near-infrared, panchromatic, photographs, photos, rededge, remote sensing, uncrewed aerial system, Fewer tags

Swath bathymetry 13-m-cell-size grid of quadrangle 5 on Stellwagen Bank offshore of Boston, Massachusetts collected by the U.S. Geological Survey aboard the CCGS Frederick G. Creed from 1994-1996

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the National Marine Sanctuary Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has conducted seabed mapping and related research in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS) region since 1993. The interpretive datasets and source information presented here are for quadrangle 5, which is one of 18 similarly sized segments of the 3,700 square kilometer (km2) SBNMS region. The seabed of the SBNMS region is a glaciated terrain that is topographically and texturally diverse. Quadrangle 5 includes the shallow, rippled, coarse-grained sandy crest and upper eastern and western flanks of southern Stellwagen Bank, its fine-grained sandy...

Tags: Atlantic Ocean, CMHRP, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Esri binary grid, Frederick G. Creed, All tags... GeoTIFF, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay, NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, North America, Simrad EM1000, Stellwagen Bank, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. east coast, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, bathymetry, bathymetry, elevation, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, marine geology, multibeam sonar, oceans, raster, sea-floor characteristics, sea-floor topography, swath bathymetry, Fewer tags

Summary of analytical data for sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA

Variability in sediment properties with depth and the thickness of individual sedimentary layers are critical determinants of seabed acoustic response. The New England Mud Patch (NEMP), located south of Cape Cod, is an unusual feature on the U.S. Continental Shelf in that it is composed of fine-grained sediment layers containing a relatively-homogeneous mix of sand, silt, and clay-sized particles bounded by more typical sandy shelf sediments. The unique characteristics and nature of this deposit is due to a derivation of sediments that have been transported to, and deposited in, a basal bowl-shaped depression since the last glacial maximum. Ninety-two piston, vibra-, and gravity cores with a maximum length of 8.2...

Categories: Data; Tags: Atlantic, Cruise ID EN577, Holocene, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, All tags... NEMP, New England Mud Patch, R/V Endeavor, Seabed Experiment Area, U.S. Continental Shelf, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, WHSC Field Activity 2016-001-FA, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, acoustic cores, bulk density, calcium carbonate, clay deposits, core analysis, cores, earth material properties, geology, geophysical properties, grain density, grain porosity, grain size, gravity coring, oceans, organic carbon, piston cores, piston coring, porosity, sand deposits, sediment samples, sedimentology, soil moisture, trigger cores, unconsolidated deposits, vibracores, vibracoring, Fewer tags

A GIS compilation of vector shorelines for the Virginia coastal region from the 1840s to 2010s

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled national shoreline data for more than 20 years to document coastal change and serve the needs of research, management, and the public. Maintaining a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor national shoreline evolution over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers and planners understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release includes a compilation of previously published historical shoreline positions for Virginia spanning 148 years (1849-1997), and two new mean high water (MHW) shorelines extracted from lidar data collected...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, Baseline, DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, HWL, All tags... High Water Line, MHW, Mean High Water, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, Virginia, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, historical shorelines, oceans, Fewer tags

Intersects for coastal region of Virginia generated to calculate short-term shoreline change rates using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 5.1

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled national shoreline data for more than 20 years to document coastal change and serve the needs of research, management, and the public. Maintaining a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor national shoreline evolution over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers and planners understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release includes a compilation of previously published historical shoreline positions for Virginia spanning 148 years (1849-1997), and two new mean high water (MHW) shorelines extracted from lidar data collected...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, Baseline, DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, Mid-Atlantic, All tags... North America, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, Virginia, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, accretion, coastal processes, environment, erosion, erosion, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, long-term change, oceans, shoreline accretion, short-term change, Fewer tags

Long-term shoreline change rates for the Virginia coastal region, calculated with and without the proxy-datum bias using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 5.1

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled national shoreline data for more than 20 years to document coastal change and serve the needs of research, management, and the public. Maintaining a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor national shoreline evolution over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers and planners understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release includes a compilation of previously published historical shoreline positions for Virginia spanning 148 years (1849-1997), and two new mean high water (MHW) shorelines extracted from lidar data collected...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, Atlantic Coast, Baseline, DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, All tags... Mid-Atlantic, North America, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, Virginia, Virginia, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, accretion, coastal processes, environment, erosion, erosion, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, long-term change, oceans, shoreline accretion, short-term change, Fewer tags

Baseline for the North Carolina coastal region from Cape Hatteras to Cape Lookout (NCcentral)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled national shoreline data for more than 20 years to document coastal change and serve the needs of research, management, and the public. Maintaining a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor national shoreline evolution over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers and planners understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release includes one new mean high water (MHW) shoreline extracted from lidar data collected in 2017 for the entire coastal region of North Carolina which is divided into four subregions: northern North Carolina...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, Baseline, DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, North Carolina, All tags... Shoreline, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags

Long and short-term shoreline change rate transects for the northern North Carolina coastal region (NCnorth), calculated with and without the proxy-datum bias using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 5.1

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled national shoreline data for more than 20 years to document coastal change and serve the needs of research, management, and the public. Maintaining a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor national shoreline evolution over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers and planners understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release includes one new mean high water (MHW) shoreline extracted from lidar data collected in 2017 for the entire coastal region of North Carolina which is divided into four subregions: northern North Carolina...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, Baseline, DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, North Carolina, All tags... Shoreline, Shoreline Change, Southeast Atlantic, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, accretion, coastal processes, environment, erosion, erosion, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, long-term change rates, oceans, shoreline accretion, short-term change rates, Fewer tags

WA Short Term Shoreline Change

Sandy ocean beaches are a popular recreational destination, often surrounded by communities containing valuable real estate. Development is on the rise despite the fact that coastal infrastructure is subjected to flooding and erosion. As a result, there is an increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes. To meet these national needs, the Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is compiling existing reliable historical shoreline data along open-ocean sandy shores of the conterminous United States and parts of Alaska and Hawaii under the National Assessment of Shoreline Change project.There is no widely accepted standard for analyzing shoreline...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Accretion, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Columbia River, DSAS, All tags... Digital Shoreline Analysis System, End Point Rate, Erosion, Historic Shoreline, National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project, North America, Pacific Coast, Pacific Northwest, Shoreline, Short-Term Shoreline Change Rate, Transect, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Washington, Willapa Bay, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, environment, geoscientificInformation, oceans, oceans and coastal, oceans and estuaries, Fewer tags

Multi-sensor core logger (MSCL) data of sediment cores from the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon collected on USGS Field Activity 2012-007-FA

Twenty-four piston cores (and associated trigger cores) were collected from the source zone of the Currituck Landslide Complex and upper slope adjacent to Baltimore Canyon by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Rhode Island Department of Ocean Engineering during an eight-day cruise aboard the R/V Hugh R. Sharp in September/October of 2012. These cores were analyzed for evidence of seafloor mass transport processes, with an emphasis on constraining the age and shallow stratigraphy of the landslide complex. Sedimentological and geotechnical characterization of the cores was carried out through whole core imaging and description, followed by analysis of discrete samples at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and...

Categories: Data; Tags: Atlantic, Baltimore Canyon, Cruise ID HRS1209, Currituck Landslide, Holocene, All tags... Hugh R. Sharp, Maryland, North Carolina, U.S. Continental Shelf, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Virginia, WHCMSC, WHCMSC Field Activity 2012-007-FA, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, clay deposits, core analysis, cores, earth material properties, gamma density, geology, geoscientificInformation, multi-sensor core logger, oceans, p-wave amplitude, p-wave velocity, piston cores, piston coring, sand deposits, sediment samples, sedimentology, trigger cores, unconsolidated deposits, Fewer tags

Low-altitude aerial imagery collected from a UAS at Nauset Light Beach, Eastham, MA on September 14 and 20, 2023, pre and post Hurricane Lee

The data in this release map Marconi Beach, Head of the Meadow Beach, and Nauset Light Beach, in Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO), Massachusetts, before and after Hurricane Lee in September 2023. U.S Geological Survey personnel conducted field surveys to collect topographic data using global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) at all three beaches. In addition, at Nauset Light Beach, an uncrewed aerial system (UAS) was used to collect images with a Ricoh GRII camera for use in structure from motion photogrammetry. High-precision GNSS targets (AeroPoints) were used as ground control points (GCPs) for the UAS photogrammetry. Agisoft Metashape (v. 2.0.1) software was used to create a digital surface model and an orthomosaic...

Categories: Data; Tags: CMHRP, Cape Cod, Cape Cod National Seashore, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Eastham, All tags... GPS measurement, Global Positioning System (GPS) observations, Massachusetts, Nauset Light Beach, U.S. Geological Survey, UAS, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, elevation, geolocation measurement, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, geotagged photos, location, low-altitude aerial imagery, oceans, shoreline photographs, Fewer tags

Depth to Quaternary regional unconformities offshore of the Delmarva Peninsula, including Maryland and Virginia state waters

Geologic structure and isopach maps were constructed by interpreting over 19,890 trackline kilometers of co-located multichannel boomer, sparker and chirp seismic reflection profiles from the continental shelf of the Delmarva Peninsula, including Maryland and Virginia state waters. In this region, Brothers and others (2020) interpret 12 seismic units and 11 regional unconformities. They interpret the infilled channels as Late Tertiary and Quaternary courses of the Susquehanna, Potomac, Rappahannock, York and James Rivers and tributaries, in addition to a broad drainage system. These regional unconformities form a composite unconformity interpreted as the Quaternary-Tertiary (Q-T) unconformity. A depth to Tertiary...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, Raster; Tags: 32-bit GeoTIFF, Applied Acoustics S-Boom Source, Assateague Island, Assateague Island National Seashore, Atlantic Ocean, All tags... BOEM, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, CMHRP, Chesapeake Bay, Chincoteague Bay, Chincoteague Bight, Chincoteague Inlet, Chincoteague Island, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Cobb Island, Delaware, Delmarva Peninsula, Fisherman Island, Geologic Framework, Geometrics 16-channel Geoeel Streamer, Hog Island, Holocene, Holocene, Interpretation, James River, Marine Geology, Maryland, Maryland Energy Administration, Maryland Wind Energy Area, Myrtle Island, Parramore Island, Persimmons Point, Pleistocene, Potomac River, Quaternary, Rappahannock River, Sea floor, Seismic Interpretation, Seismic-reflection Profiles, Ship Shoal Island, Smith Island, Susquehanna River, Tertiary, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, Unconformity, Virginia, WHCMSC, Wallops Island, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Wreck Island, geologic contacts, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine geology, oceans, scientific interpretation, Fewer tags

Reference baselines used to extract shorelines for the West Coast of the United States

This data release contains reference baselines for primarily open-ocean sandy beaches along the west coast of the United States (California, Oregon and Washington). The slopes were calculated while extracting shoreline position from lidar point cloud data collected between 2002 and 2011. The shoreline positions have been previously published, but the slopes have not. A reference baseline was defined and then evenly-spaced cross-shore beach transects were created. Then all data points within 1 meter of each transect were associated with each transect. Next, it was determined which points were one the foreshore, and then a linear regression was fit through the foreshore points. Beach slope was defined as the slope...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: California, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Coastal processes, MHW, Mean High Water, All tags... Oregon, Pacific Coast, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Washington, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, beach slope, environment, foreshore, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, shoreline, Fewer tags

Sediment sample analysis data from ponds to the beach on North Core Banks, NC in October 2022

These data map in high detail surficial cross-sections of North Core Banks, a barrier island in Cape Lookout National Seashore, NC, in October 2022. U.S. Geological Survey field efforts are part of an interagency agreement with the National Park Service to monitor the recovery of the island from Hurricanes Florence (2018) and Dorian (2019). Three sites of outwash, overwash, and pond formation were targeted for extensive vegetation ground-truthing, sediment samples, bathymetric mapping with a remote-controlled surface vehicle, and uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) flights to collect multispectral imagery. Five semi-permanent ground control points were also installed and surveyed to act as control for additional aerial...

Categories: Data; Tags: Atlantic Ocean, CMHRP, Cape Lookout, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Hurricane Dorian, All tags... Hurricane Florence, National Park Service, North Core Banks, Physical Habitats and Geomorphology, Remote Sensing Coastal Change, State of North Carolina, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, beach, geoscientificInformation, grab sampling, grain size, grain-size analysis, loss on ignition, oceans, sediment, sediment analysis, sediment sample, sediment transport, Fewer tags

2017 lidar-derived mean high water shoreline for the southern coast of North Carolina from Cape Lookout to Cape Fear (NCsouth)

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has compiled national shoreline data for more than 20 years to document coastal change and serve the needs of research, management, and the public. Maintaining a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor national shoreline evolution over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers and planners understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release includes one new mean high water (MHW) shoreline extracted from lidar data collected in 2017 for the entire coastal region of North Carolina which is divided into four subregions: northern North Carolina...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Atlantic Coast, DSAS, Digital Shoreline Analysis System, MHW, Mean High Water, All tags... North Carolina, Shoreline, Shoreline Change, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, United States, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, coastal processes, environment, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, oceans, Fewer tags