DisOcean: Distance to the ocean: Monomoy Island, MA, 2014

Publication Date

2019-12-20

Start Date

2013-11-16

End Date

2014-12-27

Sturdivant, E.J., Zeigler, S.L., Gutierrez, B.T., and Weber, K.M., 2019, Barrier island geomorphology and shorebird habitat metrics–Sixteen sites on the U.S. Atlantic Coast, 2013–2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9V7F6UX.

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The dataset described here identifies the Euclidean distance from the center of each 5x5 m GeoTiff cell within the boundaries of the Monomoy Island, Massachusetts study area to the outermost shoreline of the island. The island shoreline was derived from lidar captured in 2014 at the mean high water (MHW) adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean and the mean tidal level (MTL) adjacent to Nantucket Sound (see mon14_shoreline.shp in larger work). See Zeigler and others (2019) for additional details. This dataset is part of a series of spatial datasets used to describe characteristics of barrier islands found along the North American Atlantic coast in order to identify habitat for the federally protected piping plover (Charadrius melodus). Information contained in these spatial datasets was used within a Bayesian network to model the probability that a specific set of landscape characteristics would be associated with piping plover habitat.

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