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Continuous and optimized 3-arcsecond elevation model for the United States west coast (32-bit GeoTiff, geographic, NAD83)

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Befus, K.M., and Kroeger, K.D., 2017, Continuous and optimized 3-arcsecond elevation model for United States east and west coasts: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7W37TGK.

Summary

Investigations of coastal change and coastal resources often require continuous elevation profiles from the seafloor to coastal terrestrial landscapes. Differences in elevation data collection in the terrestrial and marine environments result in separate elevation products that may not share a vertical datum. This data release contains the assimilation of multiple elevation products into a continuous digital elevation model at a resolution of 3-arcseconds (approximately 90 meters) from the terrestrial landscape to the seafloor for the contiguous U.S., focused on the coastal interface. All datasets were converted to a consistent horizontal datum, the North American Datum of 1983, but the native vertical datum for each dataset was not [...]

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west_cDEM_overview.png
“Browse graphic for west coast elevation model.”
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west_cdem_v1.tif.xml
“Metadata for west coast elevation model.”
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Purpose

The purpose of this data release is to provide a new continuous elevation model of U.S. coastal environments from onshore to offshore for various coastal applications. This dataset was created to primarily supply a smooth coastal interface to inform groundwater models requiring continuous elevations from onshore to offshore. Alternative coastal elevation datasets either lack elevation data for both terrestrial topography and marine bathymetry, provide data for a specific region within the continental United States (i.e., not continuous for either the east or west coast), or contain sufficient artifacts from its creation to reduce the utility of the dataset for the purposes of providing constraints for coastal groundwater models. This data release contains the assimilation of multiple elevation products into a continuous digital elevation model at a resolution of 3-arcseconds (approximately 90 meters) from the terrestrial landscape to the seafloor for the contiguous U.S.

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