CoastSeg: Shoreline data at 30-m spatial resolution for 5x5 degree regions of the world, in geoJSON format.
<p><em><strong>CoastSeg: global 30-m shoreline in 5x5 degree chunks</strong></em></p> <p>Data fields:</p> <ol> <li>MEAN_SIG_WAVEHEIGHT</li> <li>TIDAL_RANGE</li> <li>CHLOROPHYLL</li> <li>TURBIDITY</li> <li>TEMP_MOISTURE</li> <li>EMU_PHYSICAL</li> <li>REGIONAL_SINUOSITY</li> <li>GHM</li> <li>MAX_SLOPE %</li> <li>OUTFLOW_DENSITY</li> <li>ERODIBILITY</li> <li>LENGTH_GEO</li> <li>ch_label</li> <li>river_label</li> <li>sinuosity_label</li> <li>slope_label</li> <li>tidal_label</li> <li>turbid_label</li> <li>wave_label</li> <li>CSU_Descriptor</li> <li>CSU_ID</li> </ol> <p>The data originally come from https://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/outgoing/ecosystems/Global/USGSEsriGlobalCoastalSegmentsv1.mpk</p> <p>The data are described in the following publication</p> <p>Roger Sayre, Suzanne Noble, Sharon Hamann, Rebecca Smith, Dawn Wright, Sean Breyer, Kevin Butler, Keith Van Graafeiland, Charlie Frye, Deniz Karagulle, Dabney Hopkins, Drew Stephens, Kevin Kelly, Zeenatul Basher, Devon Burton, Jill Cress, Karina Atkins, D. Paco Van Sistine, Beverly Friesen, Rebecca Allee, Tom Allen, Peter Aniello, Irawan Asaad, Mark John Costello, Kathy Goodin, Peter Harris, Maria Kavanaugh, Helen Lillis, Eleonora Manca, Frank Muller-Karger, Bjorn Nyberg, Rost Parsons, Justin Saarinen, Jac Steiner & Adam Reed (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, S47-S56, DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/1755876X.2018.1529714">10.1080/1755876X.2018.1529714</a></p> <p>Metadata file (each file listed alongside the bounds in WGS84 latitude/longitude): global_5x5grid.geojson</p>
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44/100
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- Harmonization
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- Access
- 20
- Reuse readiness
- 8
- Engagement
- 4