Massachusetts High Water Shorelines (1800s-2009)

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
Publication_Date: 20130624
Title: Massachusetts High Water Shorelines (1800s-2009)
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Online_Linkage:
<http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/czm/program-areas/stormsmart-coasts/shoreline-change/>
Online_Linkage: <http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/map_ol/czm_shorelines.php>
Online_Linkage: <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1189/>
Larger_Work_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Theresa L. Smith
Originator: E. Robert Thieler
Originator: Julia M. Knisel, MA CZM
Originator: Daniel W. Sampson, MA CZM
Publication_Date: 20130624
Title:
Massachusetts Shoreline Change Mapping and Analysis Project, 2013 Update
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 2012-1189
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Online_Linkage: <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1189/>
Description:
Abstract:
Due to continued coastal population growth and increased threats of erosion, current data on trends and rates of shoreline movement are required to inform shoreline and floodplain management. The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (MACZM) launched the Shoreline Change Project in 1989 to identify erosion-prone areas of the coast. In 2001, a 1994 shoreline was added to calculate both long- and short-term shoreline change rates at 40-meter intervals along ocean-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast. Currently, shorelines and transects with rates are available in MORIS, the Massachusetts Ocean Resource Information System. Updated and improved shoreline change information will advance understanding of the magnitude and causes of erosion and support informed and responsible coastal management decisions by coastal managers, shorefront landowners, and potential property buyers. The Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, has compiled reliable historical shoreline data along open-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast under the Massachusetts Shoreline Change Mapping and Analysis Project 2013 Update. Two oceanfront shorelines for Massachusetts (approximately 1,370 km) were (1) delineated using 2008/09 color aerial orthoimagery, and (2) extracted from topographic LIDAR datasets (2007) obtained from NOAA's Ocean Service (NOS), Coastal Services Center (CSC). The new shorelines were integrated with existing MACZM and USGS historical shoreline data in order to compute long- and short-term rates using the latest version of the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS).
Purpose:
This dataset includes shorelines from 165 years ranging from 1844 to 2009 in the mainland Massachusetts coastal region from Salisbury, Massachusetts to Westport, Massachusetts including Cape Cod, and the Islands. Shorelines were compiled from T-sheets (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), T-sheets and air photos (Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), and lidar (USGS). Historical shoreline positions serve as easily understood features that can be used to describe the movement of beaches through time. These data are used to calculate rates of shoreline change for the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) National Assessment Project and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (MA CZM) Shoreline Change Project.
Supplemental_Information:
Cross-referenced citations are applicable to the dataset as a whole. Additional citations are located within individual process steps that pertain specifically to the method described in that step.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 20130624
Currentness_Reference: publication date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -71.124547
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -69.896822
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.876590
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.236271
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey
Theme_Keyword: USGS
Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Theme_Keyword: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Theme_Keyword: NOAA
Theme_Keyword: Coastal Services Center
Theme_Keyword: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Theme_Keyword: USACE
Theme_Keyword: National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project
Theme_Keyword: Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management
Theme_Keyword: MA CZM
Theme_Keyword: Massachusetts Shoreline Change Project
Theme_Keyword: DSAS
Theme_Keyword: Digital Shoreline Analysis System
Theme_Keyword: Shoreline Change Rate
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus:
NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0
Theme_Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION > GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Theme_Keyword: ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS > SEA LEVEL RISE
Theme_Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS > SEA LEVEL RISE > EROSION
Theme_Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS > SEA LEVEL RISE > INUNDATION
Theme_Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > HUMAN SETTLEMENTS > COASTAL AREAS
Theme_Keyword:
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > GEOMORPHOLOGY > COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES
Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > LANDFORMS
Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > COASTAL ELEVATION
Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > EROSION
Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > SEA LEVEL RISE
Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > SHORELINES
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Categories
Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation
Theme_Keyword: oceans
Theme_Keyword: environment
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: General
Place_Keyword: Gulf of Maine
Place_Keyword: Massachusetts
Place_Keyword: Barnstable County
Place_Keyword: Dukes County
Place_Keyword: Essex County
Place_Keyword: Nantucket County
Place_Keyword: Norfolk County
Place_Keyword: Plymouth County
Place_Keyword: Suffolk County
Place_Keyword: Aquinnah
Place_Keyword: Barnstable
Place_Keyword: Beverly
Place_Keyword: Boston
Place_Keyword: Bourne
Place_Keyword: Brewster
Place_Keyword: Chatham
Place_Keyword: Chilmark
Place_Keyword: Cohasset
Place_Keyword: Dartmouth
Place_Keyword: Dennis
Place_Keyword: Duxbury
Place_Keyword: Eastham
Place_Keyword: Edgartown
Place_Keyword: Fairhaven
Place_Keyword: Falmouth
Place_Keyword: Gloucester
Place_Keyword: Gosnold
Place_Keyword: Harwich
Place_Keyword: Hingham
Place_Keyword: Hull
Place_Keyword: Ipswich
Place_Keyword: Kingston
Place_Keyword: Lynn
Place_Keyword: Manchester
Place_Keyword: Marblehead
Place_Keyword: Marion
Place_Keyword: Marshfield
Place_Keyword: Mashpee
Place_Keyword: Mattapoisett
Place_Keyword: Nahant
Place_Keyword: Nantucket
Place_Keyword: New Bedford
Place_Keyword: Newbury
Place_Keyword: Newburyport
Place_Keyword: Oak Bluffs
Place_Keyword: Orleans
Place_Keyword: Plymouth
Place_Keyword: Provincetown
Place_Keyword: Quincy
Place_Keyword: Revere
Place_Keyword: Rockport
Place_Keyword: Rowley
Place_Keyword: Salem
Place_Keyword: Salisbury
Place_Keyword: Sandwich
Place_Keyword: Scituate
Place_Keyword: Swampscott
Place_Keyword: Tisbury
Place_Keyword: Truro
Place_Keyword: Wareham
Place_Keyword: Wellfleet
Place_Keyword: West Tisbury
Place_Keyword: Westport
Place_Keyword: Weymouth
Place_Keyword: Winthrop
Place_Keyword: Yarmouth
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus:
NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0
Place_Keyword:
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > MASSACHUSETTS
Place_Keyword: OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
Place_Keyword: OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MAINE
Access_Constraints:
None. These data are in the public domain. GIS files are freely available for download.
Use_Constraints:
Public domain data from the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM), an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA), are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management as the source of these data. You are not permitted to use CZM's name or to suggest that CZM endorses your project or product, without its express written consent. While efforts have been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the state of the art, CZM cannot assume liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by any inaccuracies in the data or as a result of changes to the data caused by system transfers. The user must be aware of data conditions and bear responsibility for the appropriate use of these data with respect to possible errors, original map scale, collection methodology, currency of data, and other conditions specific to these data.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
City: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 800
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02114-2138
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 617-626-1200
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 617-626-1240
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: czm@state.ma.us
Hours_of_Service: 0900 hrs to 1600 hrs EST
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.1.1.3143
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Cheryl J. Hapke
Originator: Jeffrey List
Originator: Emily A. Himmelstoss
Originator: Meredith G. Kratzmann
Originator: E. Robert Thieler
Publication_Date: 20100101
Title:
National Assessment of Shoreline Change: Historical Shoreline Change along the New England and Mid-Atlantic Coasts
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 2010-1118
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Online_Linkage: <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1118/>
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Coastal Services Center (CSC)
Publication_Date: unknown
Title:
1996-2000 NOAA/USGS/NASA Airborne LiDAR Assessment of Coastal Erosion (ALACE) Project for the U.S. Coastline
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Charleston, SC
Publisher: NOAA's Ocean Service, Coastal Services Center (CSC)
Online_Linkage: <http://www.csc.noaa.gov/ldart>
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Mark S. Osler
Originator: John S. Ramsey
Originator: Mark R. Byrnes
Originator: Sarah F. Griffee
Publication_Date: 20050101
Title: South Shore Coastal Hazards Characterization Atlas
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Atlas
Issue_Identification: 1
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Boston, MA
Publisher: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
Online_Linkage: <http://www.mass.gov/czm/hazards/ss_atlas/atlas.htm>
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS)
Publication_Date: 20130624
Title:
Scanned National Ocean Service (NOS) Coastal Survey Maps (also known as Topographic Survey sheets, or T-sheets)
Series_Information:
Series_Name: NOAA shoreline manuscripts (T-sheets)
Issue_Identification: n/a
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: E.A. Himmelstoss
Originator: E.R. Thieler
Originator: J.L. Zichichi
Originator: A. Ergul
Publication_Date: 20090101
Title:
Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 4.0 - An ArcGIS extension for calculating shoreline change
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 2008-1278
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Other_Citation_Details: Current version of software at time of use was 4.1.
Online_Linkage:
<http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/dsas/version4/index.html>
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: E. Robert Thieler
Originator: James F. O'Connell
Originator: Courtney A. Schupp
Publication_Date: 20010904
Title:
The Massachusetts Shoreline Change Project: 1800s to 1994 Technical Report
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Administrative Report
Issue_Identification: 1
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: E. Robert Thieler
Originator: Meredith G. Kratzmann
Originator: Cheryl J. Hapke
Originator: Jeffrey List
Originator: Emily A. Himmelstoss
Publication_Date: 20100101
Title:
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
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 2010-1119
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Online_Linkage: <http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1119/>
Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
The data provided here are a compilation of shorelines from multiple sources, spanning 157 years. The attributes are based on the requirements of the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) software and have gone through a series of quality assurance procedures.
Logical_Consistency_Report:
Adjacent shoreline segments do not overlap and are not necessarily continuous. Shorelines were quality checked for accuracy. Any slight offsets between adjacent segments due to georeferencing and digitizing error are taken into account in the uncertainty calculations included in the corresponding report.
Completeness_Report:
This shoreline file is complete and contains all shoreline segments used to calculate shoreline change rates along sections of the Massachusetts coastal region where shoreline position data were available. These data adequately represented the shoreline position at the time of the survey. Remaining gaps in these data, if applicable, are a consequence of non-existing data or existing data that did not meet quality assurance standards.
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
Shoreline data have been acquired from 1844 to 2009, the horizontal accuracy of which varies with respect to data source from which the shorelines were digitized, the lidar data from which the shorelines were extracted, and the time period. Shorelines prior to 1950 have an estimated positional uncertainty of plus or minus 10.8 meters. Shorelines from 1960-1980 have an estimated positional uncertainty of plus or minus 5.1 meters. Air photo-derived shorelines from 1990-2000s have an estimated positional uncertainty of plus or minus 3.2 meters. Shorelines derived from 50 cm 2001 orthophotos have an estimated positional uncertainty of plus or minus 3.2 meters. Shorelines derived from 15cm 2008 orthophotos have an estimated positional uncertainty of plus or minus 1.0 meters. Shorelines derived from 30cm 2008/09 orthophotos have an estimated positional uncertainty of plus or minus 2.3 meters. Shorelines from 2009 derived from poor resolution/contrast orthophotos have an estimated positional uncertainty of plus or minus 4.3 meters. The lidar shorelines from 2000 have an estimated positional uncertainty of plus or minus 1.3 meters.
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Applied Coastal Research and Engineering, Inc.
Publication_Date: 20010101
Title: South Shore of Massachusetts, 2001 High-Water Shoreline
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Mashpee, MA
Publisher: Applied Coastal research and Engineering, Inc.
Source_Scale_Denominator: 5
Type_of_Source_Media: None
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: South Shore of Massachusetts, 2001 High-Water Shoreline
Source_Contribution:
Digital orthophotography flown by Keystone Aerial Surveys Inc. served as the base maps from which a high-water shoreline was extracted using heads-up digitizing procedures in ArcMap for the 2001 South Shore dataset.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: National Ocean Services
Originator: Photo Science, Inc. (renamed EarthData International)
Publication_Date: 19970508
Publication_Time: unknown
Title: Massachusetts Coastal Orthophotographs
Edition: 1
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: 45 West Watkins Mill Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Publisher: Photo Science, Inc.
Online_Linkage: Not Available
Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 19940901
Source_Currentness_Reference: Unknown
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Massachusetts Coastal Orthophotographs
Source_Contribution:
Full-color, digital orthophotographs were provided by MCZM on CD-ROM. The photos have a resolution of 1 meter per pixel. The aerial photography was flown in September/October 94 by the National Ocean Service (NOS photographic missions 94061, 94062, 94063, and 94064) at a nominal scale of 1:48,000. The photographs were scanned and orthorectified by EarthData International (Gaithersburg, MD) using camera station information supplied to EarthData by NOS. The CD-ROMs supplied by MCZM contained mosaicked orthophotos at 1-meter/pixel resolution, with boundaries corresponding to the existing MCZM shoreline change maps, as well as ArcInfo TIF World File (TFW) georeferencing information.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Photo Science, Inc. (renamed EarthData International)
Originator: Applied Geographics Inc.
Publication_Date: 19950730
Title: Statistical Analysis of Shoreline Change in Massachusetts
Edition: 1
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: map
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: 100 Franklin Street, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02110
Publisher: Applied Geographics Inc.
Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 19950508
Source_Currentness_Reference: 19950508
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Statistical Analysis of Shoreline Change in Massachusetts
Source_Contribution: Arc coverage of Massachusetts shorelines 1844-1978
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Shoreline data were sought in an effort to compile as many quality shorelines as possible for Massachusetts. Digital shorelines from the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (MCZM) were acquired. This process step and all subsequent process steps were performed by the same person - Theresa Smith.
Process_Date: 20110101
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Theresa Smith
Contact_Position: Contractor
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing
Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Country: US
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-547-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: theresasmith@usgs.gov
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Historic shoreline positions obtained from USGS were projected in ESRI's ArcToolbox (v.9.3)>Data Management Tools>Projections and Transformations>Feature>Project. Parameters: input projection = Geographic Coordinate System (WGS 1984); output projection = State Plane Massachusetts Mainland FIPS 2001 (NAD83); transformation = NAD_1983_To_WGS_1984_6. USGS and MA CZM shorelines were appended to the USGS GreaterBoston_shorelines shapefile in ArcToolbox >Data Management Tools>General>Append to produce a single shoreline file for Massachusetts and renamed MA_Shoreline_Update2011. The final shoreline dataset was coded with the following attribute fields: ID, Route ID, Source, Date, Uncertainty (Uncy), Shape Length (Shape_Leng), Year, and Original ID.
Process_Date: 20110101
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
USGS shorelines were manually clipped to the Massachusetts state line by using the split editing tool in an ArcMAP v9.3
Process_Date: 20110101
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Redundant shorelines were eliminated from the new dataset in an ArcMap v9.3 by selecting the area and comparing the year. Edits were checked for overlapping data and unnecessary gaps between adjacent shorelines. No edgematching between adjacent shorelines was attempted.
Process_Date: 20110101
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Metadata was created in ArcCatalog 9.3 and metadata from the USGS shapefile GreaterBoston_shorelines was imported. Further editing was performed in xml format using Notepad ++ Portable Launcher v2008.
Process_Date: 20110101
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The 2008 and 2009 shorelines were appended to the MA_Shorelines2011 shapefile in ArcToolbox >Data Management Tools>General>Append to produce a single shoreline file for Massachusetts.
Process_Date: 20110101
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The appended shoreline file was imported into a personal geodatabase in ArcCatalog v9.3 by right-clicking on the geodatabase > Import (feature class for shoreline file and table for uncertainty table).
Process_Date: 20110101
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
SDTS_Terms_Description:
SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: String
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 739
Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Planar:
Map_Projection:
Map_Projection_Name: NAD 1983 StatePlane Massachusetts Mainland FIPS 2001
Lambert_Conformal_Conic:
Standard_Parallel: 41.71666666666667
Standard_Parallel: 42.68333333333333
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -71.5
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 41.0
False_Easting: 200000.0
False_Northing: 750000.0
Planar_Coordinate_Information:
Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair
Coordinate_Representation:
Abscissa_Resolution: 0.000000008155898179040834
Ordinate_Resolution: 0.000000008155898179040834
Planar_Distance_Units: meter
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: D North American 1983
Ellipsoid_Name: GRS 1980
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222101
Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Detailed_Description:
Entity_Type:
Entity_Type_Label: shorelines
Entity_Type_Definition: Vector shorelines
Entity_Type_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: FID
Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.
Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain:
Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Shape
Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.
Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: YEAR
Attribute_Definition: The year represented by a unique digitized shoreline.
Attribute_Definition_Source: MA CZM
Attribute_Domain_Values:
Unrepresentable_Domain: Description of features.
Distribution_Information:
Distributor:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
City: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 800
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02114-2138
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 617-626-1200
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 617-626-1240
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: czm@state.ma.us
Hours_of_Service: 0900 hrs to 1600 hrs EST
Resource_Description: web page
Distribution_Liability:
Neither the U.S. Government, the Department of the Interior, nor the USGS, nor any of their employees, contractors, or subcontractors, make any warranty, express or implied, nor assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, nor represent that its use would not infringe on privately owned rights. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the USGS in the use of these data or related materials. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Standard_Order_Process:
Digital_Form:
Digital_Transfer_Information:
Format_Name: ESRI Shapefile (.shp)
Format_Version_Number: ArcGIS 8.x, 9.x, and 10.x
Digital_Transfer_Option:
Online_Option:
Computer_Contact_Information:
Network_Address:
Network_Resource_Name:
<http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/czm/program-areas/stormsmart-coasts/shoreline-change/>
Computer_Contact_Information:
Network_Address:
Network_Resource_Name: <http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/map_ol/czm_shorelines.php>
Access_Instructions: web page
Fees:
GIS and coordinate files may be downloaded at no charge by following links on the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management website (<http://www.mass.gov/czm/>).
Metadata_Reference_Information:
Metadata_Date: 20130903
Metadata_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
City: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 800
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02114-2138
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 617-626-1200
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 617-626-1240
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: czm@state.ma.us
Hours_of_Service: 0900 hrs to 1600 hrs EST
Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Time_Convention: local time
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