Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.3 transects with end-point rate calculations for sheltered shorelines between the U.S.-Canadian border and the Okpilak-Hulahula River Delta for the time period 1947 to 2003

• 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; effects of coastal change; coastal processes; shoreline accretion; shoreline erosion; erosion; 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
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/7588133d-f237-4941-971d-179deb125e9b

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...