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    "tag": 12010,
    "title": "Geomorphic habitat units derived from 2009 aerial imagery and elevation data for the Elwha River estuary, Washington",
    "pubdate": "2017",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "10.5066\/DR_ F75B00N4 ",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/pcmsc\/DataReleases\/ScienceBase\/DR_F75B00N4\/BeachUnits_2009_meta.faq.html",
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    "descript": "Estuary geomorphic units delineated at a scale of 1:1500 using a combination of (a) 11 September 2009 1 meter resolution NAIP aerial imagery; and (b) elevation-colored and hillshaded digital elevation models from USGS backpack\/jetski topobathy surveys (17 September 2009) for areas < MHHW and aerial lidar surveys (4-6 April 2009) for elevations > MHHW.",
    "lang": null,
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Warrick, Jonathan A.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Ritchie, Andrew C.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Foley, Melissa M.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Shafroth, Patrick B.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Bierne, Matthew M.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Paradis, Rebecca",
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        }
    ],
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            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "174",
            "name": "coastal ecosystems",
            "scope": "Biological communities and habitats within the narrow zones of land between the margin of oceans or seas and large landmasses."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1799",
            "name": "coastal processes",
            "scope": "Processes unique to coastal areas including longshore transport, beach erosion, storm surge, shoreline change, delta formation, barrier island migration, beach stabilization by vegetation"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "310",
            "name": "ecological processes",
            "scope": "Dynamic biogeochemical interactions that occur among and between biotic and abiotic components of the biosphere."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "468",
            "name": "geomorphology",
            "scope": "Branch of geology dealing with surface land features and the processes that create and change them."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "474",
            "name": "geospatial datasets",
            "scope": "Collections of related digital information that are geographically referenced."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "525",
            "name": "habitats",
            "scope": "Parts of the physical environment where plants and animals live. Use in combination with terms from organisms and organism groupings (non-taxonomic) to indicate the topic of a species or group of species habitat."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
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            "scope": "The effects, intentional or unintentional, beneficial or harmful, direct or indirect, which human activities have upon the environment and living things."
        },
        {
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        },
        {
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            "code": "007",
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            "scope": "Environmental resources, protection and conservation, for example environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape, water quality, air quality, environmental modeling"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "008",
            "name": "geoscientificInformation",
            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "262",
            "name": "dam",
            "scope": "a barrier constructed to impound water for domestic use, irrigation, flood control, or hydroelectric power generation."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "763",
            "name": "dam removal",
            "scope": "used for downstream impacts of decommissioning and removing dams, including sedimentation, ecological changes, and changes in water quality."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "279",
            "name": "ecological change",
            "scope": "used for environmental changes, both physical and biological, that affect the composition and structure of a community of living organisms."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "289",
            "name": "human impacts on habitats",
            "scope": "the effects of human activities on habitats."
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