Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.3 transects with end-point rate calculations for exposed shorelines between Point Barrow and Icy Cape for the time period 1947 to 2012

• Main Author: U.S. Geological Survey
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2015
• Subjects: Shoreline; Historic Shoreline; Shoreline Change Rate; Erosion; Accretion; End-point Rate; Baseline; Transect; Digital Shoreline Analysis System; DSAS; U.S. Geological Survey; USGS; Coastal and Marine Geology Program; CMGP; Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center; PCMSC; oceans; environment; geoscientificInformation; North Slope; Beaufort Sea; Barrow; Demarcation Bay; Jago River; Staines River; Sagavanirktok River; Colville River; Cape Halkett; Harrison Bay; Drew Point; Tangent Point; Smith Bay; Elson Lagoon; Peard Bay; Alaska; Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; United States; Arctic; National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska; NPR-A; ANWR; Pacific; north slope; Point Barrow
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/22e2966b-cd45-4046-b18d-9fb94a61c045

The Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska is an area of strategic economic importance to the United States, is home to remote Native American communities, and encompasses unique habitats of global significance. Coastal erosion along the north coast of Alaska is chronic, widespread, may be accelera...