Offshore baseline for the exposed West Beaufort Sea, Alaska coastal region (Colville River to Point Barrow) generated to calculate shoreline change rates

• Main Authors: Gibbs, Ann E., Ohman, Karin A., Coppersmith, Ryan, Richmond, Bruce M.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2017
• Subjects: Baseline; Shoreline; Shoreline Change; Digital Shoreline Analysis System; DSAS; U.S. Geological Survey; USGS; Coastal and Marine Geology Program; CMGP; Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center; PCMSC; National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project; oceans; environment; geoscientificInformation; coastal processes; Habitat; shoreline accretion; shoreline erosion; North Slope; Beaufort Sea; Point Barrow; Colville River; Cape Halkett; Harrison Bay; Drew Point; Smith Bay; Elson Lagoon; Dease Inlet; State of Alaska; United States of America; Arctic; National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska; NPR-A; ANWR; Pacific; Sea Point; Barrow; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/7e2a716b-1427-48b2-a0d6-8e5b6691f237

This dataset includes a reference baseline used by the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) to calculate rate-of-change statistics for the exposed north coast of Alaska coastal region between the Colville River and Point Barrow for the time period 1947 to 2012. This baseline layer serves as the starting point for all transects cast by the DSAS application and can be used to establish measurement points used to calculate shoreline-change rates.