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- description: 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.; 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.
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- creation Date
2018-05-19T23:55:57.063794
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2018-08-06T20:52:27Z
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- notes: This metadata record was generated by an xslt transformation from a dc metadata record; Transform by Stephen M. Richard, based
on a transform by Damian Ulbricht. Run on 2018-08-06T20:52:27Z
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CINERGI Metadata catalog
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eng
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Metadata standard for this record:
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
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2007
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urn:dciso:metadataabout:94a46b83-6c23-4f0e-9bb5-ab5422770cb2
Metadata record format is ISO19139 XML (MD_Metadata)