Hapke, Cheryl, and Reid, David, Unknown, Southern California Shoreline Bias Values: Open-File Report 2006-1251, U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center, Santa Cruz, California.This is part of the following larger work.Online Links:
Moore, Laura, Ruggiero, Peter, and List, Jeff, 2006, Comparing mean high water and high water line shorelines: Should proxy-datum offsets be incorporated in shoreline change analysis.: Journal of Coastal Research v.22, n.4, pp. 894-905, USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program, USGS Pacific Science Center, Santa Cruz California.
This is a Vector data set. It contains the following vector data types (SDTS terminology):
Planar coordinates are encoded using coordinate pair
Abscissae (x-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 0.000512
Ordinates (y-coordinates) are specified to the nearest 0.000512
Planar coordinates are specified in meters
The horizontal datum used is North American Datum of 1927.
The ellipsoid used is Clarke 1866.
The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378206.400000.
The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/294.978698.
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Coordinates defining the features.
Sequential Numbers defining the features.
Describes additional characteristics of feature.
| Range of values | |
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| Minimum: | 10.1 |
| Maximum: | 24.2 |
| Units: | meters |
| Resolution: | 0.1 |
| Range of values | |
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| Minimum: | 5.7 |
| Maximum: | 15.9 |
| Units: | meters |
| Resolution: | 0.1 |
| Range of values | |
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| Minimum: | 9.9 |
| Maximum: | 27.5 |
| Units: | meters |
| Resolution: | 0.1 |
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Historical shoreline change is considered to be a crucial element in studying the vulnerability of the national shoreline. These data are used in a shoreline change analysis for the USGS National Assessment Project.
Hapke, Cheryl, and Reid, David, Unknown, THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF SHORELINE CHANGE: A GIS Compilation of Vector Shorelines and Associated Shoreline Change Data for the Sandy Shorelines of the California Coast.: Open-File Report 2006-1251, U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center, Santa Cruz, California.This is part of the following larger work.Online Links:
Hapke, Cheryl, Reid, David, Richmond, Bruce, Ruggiero, Peter, and List, Jeff, Unknown, National Assessment of Shoreline Change: Part 3, Historical Shoreline Changes and Associated Coastal Land Loss Along the Sandy Shorelines of California Coast: Open File Report 2006-1219, U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center, Santa Cruz.Online Links:
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The bias uncertainty, averaged over 815 1-km sections of the California coast, was approximately 18 m with an average uncertainty of approximately 8.7m. Please see the Open File Report for more information (<http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1219/>)
The bias, averaged over 815 1-km sections of the California coast, was approximately 18 m with an average uncertainty of approximately 8.7m.
The proxy-datum bias, and the associated uncertainty, is calculated at each of the 1-km blocks in which the average beach slope has been calculated. The nearest WIS station, wave buoy, and tide gage to each individual 1-km block were used in the application of Equation 1. Once the bias was calculated, it was incorporated into DSAS and applied on a transect-by-transect basis, so that the estimated bias is removed from the final long- and short-term shoreline change rates.
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