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MA Bias_Feature – Feature class containing Massachusetts proxy-datum bias information to be used in the Digital Shoreline Analysis System.

The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) is a freely available software application that works within the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Geographic Information System (ArcGIS) software. DSAS computes rate-of-change statistics for a time series of shoreline vector data. Additionally, the DSAS application is useful for computing rates of change for any boundary-change problem that incorporates a clearly-identified feature position at discrete times, such as glacier limits, river banks, or land use/cover boundaries. The "bias feature" is a shapefile representation the proxy-datum bias (PDB) data previously published in tabular format (Himmelstoss and others 2010, Himmelstoss and others 2018). These PDB data are used to shift older proxy-based shorelines so that they can be directly compared to newer datum-based shorelines and accurate rates can be calculated.

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Author(s) Marie K Bartlett orcid, Rachel E Henderson orcid, Amy Farris orcid, Emily Himmelstoss orcid
Publication Date 2021-08-31
Beginning Date of Data 2021
Ending Date of Data 2021
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YGIYFX
Citation Bartlett, M.K., Henderson, R.E., Farris, A., and Himmelstoss, E., 2021, MA Bias_Feature – Feature class containing Massachusetts proxy-datum bias information to be used in the Digital Shoreline Analysis System.: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YGIYFX.
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