USGS Open-File Report 2015–1030: National Assessment of Shoreline Change—A GIS Compilation of Vector Shorelines and Associated Shoreline Change Data for the North Coast of Alaska, U.S.-Canadian Border to Icy Cape

Open-File Report 2015–1030

National Assessment of Shoreline Change—A GIS Compilation of Vector Shorelines and Associated Shoreline Change Data for the North Coast of Alaska, U.S.-Canadian Border to Icy Cape

Conversion Factors and Datum

Multiply	By	To obtain
Length
meter (m)	3.281	foot (ft)
meter (m)	1.094	yard (yd)
kilometer (km)	0.6214	mile (mi)
kilometer (km)	0.5400	mile, nautical (nmi)

All positional measurements were made in the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system on the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 83).

Data provided with this report were reprojected to the Geographic Coordinate System (GCS, latitude and longitude) on the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84) datum using the WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983 transformation in ESRI ArcGIS™ v. 10.1.

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