Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 4.3 Transects with Short-Term Linear Regression Rate Calculations for Alabama

Publication Date

2017

Time Period

2016

Himmelstoss, E.A., Kratzmann, M.G., and Thieler, E.R., 2017, National assessment of shoreline change – A GIS compilation of updated vector shorelines and associated shoreline change data for the Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F78P5XNK.

This dataset consists of short-term (~30-year) shoreline change rates for the Alabama coastal region from the Florida border to Dauphin Island. Rate calculations were computed within a GIS using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.3, an ArcGIS extension developed by the U.S. Geological Survey. Short-term rates of shoreline change were calculated using a linear regression rate where three or more shorelines exist in the dataset for the short-term time period (1960 and later). The shoreline data must cover a distance greater than 1 kilometer to be included. A reference baseline was used as the originating point for the orthogonal transects cast by the DSAS software. The transects intersect each shoreline establishing measurement points, which are then used to calculate short-term rates.

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