California shorelines and shoreline change data, 1998-2016
January 19, 2021
This data release contains mean high water (MHW) shorelines along the coast of California for the years 1998/2002, 2015, and 2016, extracted from Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) digital elevation models using ArcGIS. The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) was used to calculate net shoreline movement (NSM) between the pre-El Nino (2015) and post-El Nino (2016) shorelines, as a proxy for sandy shoreline change throughout the El Nino winter season. For a longer-term perspective of background shoreline behavior, end-point rates (EPR) of change were also calculated between the 1998/2002 and the 2016 shorelines.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Title | California shorelines and shoreline change data, 1998-2016 |
| DOI | 10.5066/P91QSGXF |
| Authors | Schuyler A. Smith, Patrick Barnard, Amy Foxgrover |
| Product Type | Data Release |
| Record Source | USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog |
| USGS Organization | Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center |
| Rights | This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal |
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