Madeline T. Martin Jill Janene Cress Kevin Butler Keith Van Graafeiland Sean Breyer Dawn Wright Charlie Frye Deniz Karagulle Tom Allen Rebecca Allee Rost Parsons Bjorn Nyberg Mark J. Costello Frank Muller-Karger Peter Harris Roger Sayre 2021 <p>With approximately half the world’s population living less than 65 miles from the ocean, coastal ecosystems are arguably Earth’s most critical real estate. Yet coastlines are among the more difficult features to accurately map; until now, no comprehensive high-resolution geospatial dataset existed. This chapter presents a new map and ecological inventory of global coastlines developed by Esri, the U.S. Geological Survey, and other partners.</p> application/pdf en Esri Press Earth's coastlines chapter