DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11390980
title: CoastSeg: Beach transects and beachface slope database v2.0

description: CoastSeg: Beach transects and beachface slope database v2.0

Coastal shoreline-normal transects, to support shoreline extraction from satellite imagery, and tidal correction of CoastSeg-derived shoreline time-series and other shoreline data, as well as miscellaneous  analyses of coastal shoreline data.

 

These data work with the software package CoastSeg https://github.com/SatelliteShorelines/CoastSeg. More details are available on the project's website https://satelliteshorelines.github.io/CoastSeg/

These transecst are not comprehensive in coverage, representing the best available data known to us at this time, and are provided to the user as a courtesy, but each user has the option (and is encouraged) to develop and use their own transects.

Transects data

1. id: unique ID code

2. slope: beach face slope, for tidal correction of transect-based data3. distance: distance in degrees between slope datum location and transect location4. feature_x: transect location x5. feature_y: transect location y6. nearest_x: nearest slope location x7. nearest_y: nearest slope location y

Note that beach slopes are not available for every transect location. A value of NULL is used in those (relatively rare) locations.

Beach face slope and transect data have been derived from:

1. Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Birchler, J.J., Brenner, O.T., Hardy, M.W., Morgan, K.L.M, Stockdon, H.F., and Torres, M.L., 2017, Lidar-derived beach morphology (dune crest, dune toe, and shoreline) for U.S. sandy coastlines (ver. 4.0, October 2020): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GF0S0Z.

2. Kilian Vos. (2023). Time-series of shoreline change along the Pacific Rim (v1.4) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7758183

3. Andrew Short. (2022). Sediment size dataset for Australia [Data set]. In Australian Coastal Systems (0.1, p. XXV, 1241). Springer Cham. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7127186

4. Vos, Kilian, Wen, Deng, Harley, Mitchell D., Turner, Ian L., & Splinter, Kristen D. (2022). Beach-face slope dataset for Australia (Version 2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7272538

5. Gibbs, A.E., Ohman, K.A., Coppersmith, R., and Richmond, B.M., 2017, National Assessment of Shoreline Change: A GIS compilation of updated vector shorelines and associated shoreline change data for the north coast of Alaska, U.S. Canadian border to Icy Cape: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F72Z13N1.

6. Himmelstoss, E.A., Kratzmann, M., Hapke, C., Thieler, E.R., and List, J., 2010, The National Assessment of Shoreline Change: A GIS Compilation of Vector Shorelines and Associated Shoreline Change Data for the New England and Mid-Atlantic Coasts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1119, available at https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1119/.

7. Snyder, A.G., and Gibbs, A.E., 2019, National assessment of shoreline change: A GIS compilation of updated vector shorelines and associated shoreline change data for the north coast of Alaska, Icy Cape to Cape Prince of Wales: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9H1S1PV

8. Romine, B.M., Fletcher, C.H., Genz, A.S., Barbee, M.M., Dyer, Matthew, Anderson, T.R., Lim, S.C., Vitousek, Sean, Bochicchio, Christopher, and Richmond, B.M., 2012, National Assessment of Shoreline Change:  A GIS compilation of vector shorelines and associated shoreline change data for the sandy shorelines of Kauai, Oahu, and Maui, Hawaii: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1009, available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1009/.

9. Gibbs, A.E., Jones, B.M., and Richmond, B.M., 2020, A GIS compilation of vector shorelines and coastal bluff edge positions, and associated rate-of-change data for Barter Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9CRBC5I.

10. 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.

 

Additional contributions:

1. Sean Vitousek, USGS

 

Bounding boxes

These supporting files are the bounding boxes of vector datasets used by the program to attribute transects data



shorelines_bounding_boxes.csv

transects_bounding_boxes.csv

usa_shorelines_bounding_boxes.geojson

world_reference_shorelines_bboxes.geojson


Reference shoreline data is from Sayre et al. (2018)

 

Sayre, R., Noble, S., Hamann, S., Smith, R., Wright, D., Breyer, S., Butler, K., Van Graafeiland, K., Frye, C., Karagulle, D. and Hopkins, D., 2019. A new 30 meter resolution global shoreline vector and associated global islands database for the development of standardized ecological coastal units. Journal of Operational Oceanography, 12(sup2), pp.S47-S56.