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1983 Digitized Shoreline for Breton Island, Louisiana (Geographic, NAD83)
Shorelines were derived from the National High Altitude Photography (NHAP) program. The NHAP was coordinated by the U.S. Geological Survey as an interagency project to acquire cloud-free aerial photographs at a specific altitude above mean terrain elevation. Two different camera systems were used to obtain simultaneous coverage of black-and-white (BW) and color infrared (CIR) aerial photographs over the conterminous United States. Black-and-white aerial photographs were obtained on 9-inch film from an altitude of 40,000 feet above mean terrain elevation and are centered over USGS 7.5-minute quadrangles. Images are at a scale of 1:80,000 (1 inch equals about 1.26 miles). All NHAP flights where flown in a north to south direction. Imagery was collected over Breton Island on November 17, 1983. This dataset contains digitized shorelines created from the NHAP imagery for Breton Island, Louisiana. Shorelines were digitized in ArcMap 10.2.2 so they could be used for area and shoreline change analysis, using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) Version 4.0.
Author(s) |
Joseph F Terrano |
Publication Date | 2016-01-25 |
Beginning Date of Data | 1983-11-17 |
Ending Date of Data | 1983-11-17 |
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DOI | https://doi.org/10.5066/F7XS5SGM |
Citation | Terrano, J.F., Flocks, J.G., and Smith, K., 2016, 1983 Digitized Shoreline for Breton Island, Louisiana (Geographic, NAD83): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7XS5SGM. |
Metadata Contact | |
Metadata Date | 2020-10-13 |
Related Publication | There was no related primary publication associated with this data release. |
Citations of these data | Loading https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161039 Loading https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161069 |
Access | public |
License | http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ |
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