Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 4.3 Transects with Short-Term End Point Rate Calculations for central North Carolina (NCcentral)

• Main Author: U.S. Geological Survey
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2017
• Subjects: Short-Term Shoreline Change Rate; Shoreline; Historic Shoreline; Erosion; Accretion; End Point Rate; Transect; Digital Shoreline Analysis System; DSAS; U.S. Geological Survey; USGS; Coastal and Marine Geology Program; CMGP; Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center; WHCMSC; National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project; oceans; environment; geoscientificInformation; effects of coastal change; coastal processes; shoreline accretion; shoreline erosion; erosion; North Carolina; NC; Cape Hatteras; Green Island; Ocracoke Island; Ocracoke Inlet; Portsmouth Island; Horsepen Point; Cape Lookout; Atlantic Coast; United States; North America; Lookout; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/ea5e4e48-ecae-48bc-8c2f-dc014fff4443

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