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Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS)

Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS)

The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) v5 software is an add-in to Esri ArcGIS desktop (10.4-10.7+) that enables a user to calculate rate-of-change statistics from multiple historical shoreline positions.

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Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS)

Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS)

The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) v5 software is an add-in to Esri ArcGIS desktop (10.4-10.7+) that enables a user to calculate rate-of-change statistics from multiple historical shoreline positions.

DSAS Software
Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) User Guide
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Introduction to DSAS v5.0: Sample Data Workflow

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Introduction to DSAS v5.0: System Requirements and Installation

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DSAS Summary Report

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Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 5.0 user guide

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Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 5.1 user guide

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DSAS output

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Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS)

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The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) Version 4.0 - An ArcGIS extension for calculating shoreline change

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Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) user's guide; version 1.0

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Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 2.0: An ArcView extension for calculating shoreline change

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The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 3.0, an ArcGIS extension for calculating historic shoreline cange

Data Release
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Puerto Rico shoreline change: A GIS compilation of shorelines, baselines, intersects, and change rates calculated using the digital shoreline analysis system version 5.1

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A GIS Compilation of Vector Shorelines and Shoreline Classification for Puerto Rico from 1970 and 2010

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Historical shoreline mapping (II): Application of the Digital Shoreline Mapping and Analysis Systems (DSMS/DSAS) to shoreline change mapping in Puerto Rico

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Emily A Himmelstoss

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Slope Values Across Marsh-Forest Boundary in Chesapeake Bay Region, USA

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Map of Massachusetts and the Islands

Map of Massachusetts and the Islands

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Digital Shoreline Analysis System v5.1

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A GIS compilation of vector shorelines and coastal bluff edge positions, and associated rate-of-change data for Barter Island, Alaska

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California shorelines and shoreline change data, 1998-2016

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Massachusetts Coastline

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Data visualization with scaled options applied

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Julia L Heslin

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Meredith Kratzmann

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Amy S Farris

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Massachusetts Shoreline Change Project, 2018 Update: A GIS Compilation of Shoreline Change Rates Calculated Using Digital Shoreline Analysis System Version 5.0, With Supplementary Intersects and Baselines for Massachusetts

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Massachusetts Shoreline Change Project: A GIS Compilation of Vector Shorelines for the 2018 update

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National Assessment of Shoreline Change: A GIS compilation of Updated Vector Shorelines and Associated Shoreline Change Data for the Southeast Atlantic Coast

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Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

National Assessment of Shoreline Change: A GIS compilation of updated vector shorelines and associated shoreline change data for the north coast of Alaska, U.S. Canadian border to Icy Cape