USGS Map service: National Shoreline Change - Offshore Baseline

Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
Beach erosion is a chronic problem along most open-ocean shores of the United States. As coastal populations continue to grow, and community infrastructures are threatened by erosion, there is increased demand for accurate information regarding past and present shoreline changes. There is also need for a comprehensive analysis of shoreline movement that is regionally consistent. To meet these national needs, the USGS National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project has collected and analyzed a comprehensive database of digital vector shorelines by compiling shoreline positions from pre-existing historical shoreline databases and by generating historical and modern shoreline data. This dataset includes a reference baseline used by the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) to calculate rate-of-change statistics. This baseline layer serves as the starting point for all transects cast by the DSAS application. The resulting rates of change are available in services with the titles USGS Map service: National Shoreline Change - Long-Term Shoreline Change Rates and USGS Map service: National Shoreline Change - Short-Term Shoreline Change Rates. To make this shoreline data more accessible to the public and other agencies, the USGS created this web service. This web service was created utilizing ESRI ArcServer. This service meets open geospatial consortium standards. The geographic information system (GIS) data layers from this web service are cataloged by state for ease of access.
Citation
Title USGS Map service: National Shoreline Change - Offshore Baseline
publication  Date   2011-01-01
Edition 1.0
presentationForm  DIGITAL MAPS
cited responsible party - publisher
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Contact information
Address
, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
cited responsible party -
organisation Name  
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/cmgp/rest/services/National/slc_OffshoreBaseline/MapServer
cited responsible party -
organisation Name  
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/
cited responsible party -
organisation Name  
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/cmgp/services/National/slc_OffshoreBaseline/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
Topic Category:  oceans,oceans and coastal,oceans and estuaries,geoscientificInformation
Keywords:
Theme keywords (theme):
oceans
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
CMGP
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
WHCMSC
Earth Science
geology
geomorphology of the gulf coast region
geoscientific information
environment
shoreline
shoreline change
shoreline change rates
Geographic Information System
GIS
coastal change
digital vector shoreline
vector shorelines
national assessment
national assessment of shoreline change
national assessment of coastal change
beach
erosion
accretion
coastal land loss
Light Detection and Ranging
LIDAR derived shoreline
digital data
vector layers
thesaurus name >
Title General
Location keywords:
United States
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Pacific Ocean
North America
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
California
thesaurus name >
Title General
Theme keywords (theme):
Survey
thesaurus name >
Title Activity > Observation
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
Erosion
thesaurus name >
Title Process > Geologic Processes
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
Web Service
thesaurus name >
Title Resource Type > Web Service
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
Island
thesaurus name >
Title Feature > Hydrologic Feature
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
Position
Light
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Title Property > Measure
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
Wood
thesaurus name >
Title Material > Environmental Material
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
Geography
Earth Science
Geomorphology
Marine Geology
Marine Science
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Title Science Domain > Earth Science
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
Open Ocean
thesaurus name >
Title Realm > Ocean Region
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
U.S. Geological Survey
thesaurus name >
Title Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Corporate Names
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
Beach
thesaurus name >
Title Feature > Physiographic Feature
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
USGS
thesaurus name >
Title Organization > GOVERNMENT AGENCIES-U.S. FEDERAL AGENCIES
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
Analysis
thesaurus name >
Title Method > Information Processing
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
LIDAR
thesaurus name >
Title Equipment > Instrument
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
ESRI
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Title Organization > Commercial Organization
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
Theme keywords (theme):
Shoreline
Shore
Ocean
Gulf
Coast
thesaurus name >
Title Feature > Marine Feature
publication  Date   2016-11-13
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced at Sun Nov 13 20:35:04 UTC 2016
purpose:
This GIS service provides users with online access to offshore baseline data.
Resource language:  eng; USA
Resource progress code:  completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  notPlanned
Constraints on resource usage:
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
Neither the U.S. Government, the Department of the Interior, nor the USGS, nor any of their employees, contractors, or subcontractors, make any warranty, express or implied, nor assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, nor represent that its use would not infringe on privately owned rights. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these data or related materials. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
use constraint:  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Use Constraints: Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey as the originator of the dataset.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access Constraints: None
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -124.73
eastBoundLongitude  -66.97
northBoundLatitude  49.37
southBoundLatitude  24.96
Temporal Extent
Additional information on resource:
Cross-referenced citations are applicable to the dataset as a whole.
point of contact - pointOfContact
individual Name John O'Malley
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 508-548-8700 x2340
Address
384 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543-1598 Country USA
electronic Mail Address jomalley@usgs.gov
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Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
individual Name John O'Malley
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 508-548-8700 x2340
Address
384 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543-1598 Country USA
electronic Mail Address jomalley@usgs.gov
Standard ordering process
fees None
Format
Format name Web Mapping Service (WMS)
Format version 1.1.1
specification > Open Geospatial Consortium Web Mapping Service (version varies)
Format
Format name ArcGIS Server REST
Format version 
specification > ESRI ArcGIS Server REST API
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name Web Mapping Service (WMS)
URL: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/cmgp/services/National/slc_OffshoreBaseline/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
link function 
Description 
Linkage for online resource
name ArcGIS Server REST
URL: http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/cmgp/rest/services/National/slc_OffshoreBaseline/MapServer
link function 
Description 

Metadata data stamp:  2014-07-14
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  annually
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
individual Name John O'Malley
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 508-548-8700 x2340
Address
384 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543-1598 Country USA
electronic Mail Address jomalley@usgs.gov
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata language  eng; USA
Metadata character set encoding:   utf8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  9aa395df-53b5-44b6-a6da-fb3570cfe321

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)