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  <dc:contributor>Cathleen E Jones</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Zhaohui Chi</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Elijah W. Ramsey III</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Amina Rangoonwala</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2017</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;A comprehensive mapping technology was developed utilizing standard image processing and available &lt;/span&gt;&lt;small&gt;GIS&amp;nbsp;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;span&gt;procedures to automate shoreline identification and mapping from 2 m synthetic aperture radar (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;small&gt;SAR&lt;/small&gt;&lt;span&gt;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;small&gt;HH&amp;nbsp;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;span&gt;amplitude data. The development used four &lt;/span&gt;&lt;small&gt;NASA&lt;/small&gt;&lt;span&gt; Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle SAR (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;small&gt;UAVSAR&lt;/small&gt;&lt;span&gt;) data collections between summer 2009 and 2012 and a fall 2012 collection of wetlands dominantly fronted by vegetated shorelines along the Mississippi River Delta that are beset by severe storms, toxic releases, and relative sea-level rise. In comparison to shorelines interpreted from 0.3 m and 1 m orthophotography, the automated &lt;/span&gt;&lt;small&gt;GIS&lt;/small&gt;&lt;span&gt; 10 m alongshore sampling found &lt;/span&gt;&lt;small&gt;SAR&lt;/small&gt;&lt;span&gt; shoreline mapping accuracy to be ±2 m, well within the lower range of reported shoreline mapping accuracies. The high comparability was obtained even though water levels differed between the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;small&gt;SAR&lt;/small&gt;&lt;span&gt; and photography image pairs and included all shorelines regardless of complexity. The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;small&gt;SAR&lt;/small&gt;&lt;span&gt; mapping technology is highly repeatable and extendable to other &lt;/span&gt;&lt;small&gt;SAR&lt;/small&gt;&lt;span&gt; instruments with similar operational functionality.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.14358/PERS.83.3.237</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Operational shoreline mapping with high spatial resolution radar and geographic processing</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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