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    "title": "Mean High Water Shorelines for the Outer Cape of Massachusetts from Nauset Inlet to Race Point (1998-2005)",
    "pubdate": "20200922",
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    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/P9GWL52F",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/SB_data_release\/DR_P9GWL52F\/CapeCod_SWASH_Shorelines_Metadata.faq.html",
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    "descript": "This data release contains mean high water (MHW) shorelines for the Outer Cape of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, from Nauset Inlet to Race Point. From 1998-2005, the U.S. Geological Survey surveyed 45 kilometers of coastline 111 times using a ground-based system called Surveying Wide-Area Shorelines (SWASH). The SWASH system used a six-wheeled amphibious all-terrain vehicle as a platform for an array of Global Positioning System sensors. High-accuracy measurements of horizontal position, vertical position, and beach slope were collected at 0.5-second intervals as the vehicle traversed a single, shore-parallel line along the foreshore.  The data were interpolated onto a coast-following reference line at 2-meter intervals. The shoreline position (defined as the intersection of the MHW datum with the foreshore) was determined by extrapolating from the location of the vehicle-driven track to the location of the MHW contour. The uncertainty for each shoreline point was calculated and the shoreline data were written to netCDF and ASCII csv files. This SWASH dataset represents a unique time series for quantifying large-scale coastal evolution, seasonal shoreline variability, and coastal behavior due to storms.",
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Farris, Amy S.",
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        {
            "name": "Weber, Kathryn M.",
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        {
            "name": "List, Jeffrey H.",
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            "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"
        },
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            "scope": "Branch of geology dealing with surface land features and the processes that create and change them."
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            "code": "472",
            "name": "geospatial analysis",
            "scope": "Detailed study of information such as measurements, counts, and computations as a function of geographical location."
        },
        {
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            "scope": "Collections of related digital information that are geographically referenced."
        },
        {
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            "code": "492",
            "name": "GPS measurement",
            "scope": "Determination of distance and location using instruments receiving signals from the Global Positioning System, a system of satellites for identifying earth locations."
        },
        {
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            "code": "1028",
            "name": "sea-level change",
            "scope": "Variation in the relative vertical position of land and ocean waters. Caused globally by changes in the distribution of ice masses and the shape of the oceans, and locally by the rate of uplift or subsidence of the land surface.  Includes both global (eustatic) and local (relative) sea-level variations."
        },
        {
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            "name": "shoreline accretion",
            "scope": "Seaward migration of the shoreline resulting from the addition of earth materials."
        },
        {
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            "name": "subsidence",
            "scope": "Settling, compaction, or caving in of land caused by subsurface mining, ground-water withdrawal, or pumping of oil and gas."
        },
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            "name": "elevation",
            "scope": "Height above or below sea level, for example altitude, bathymetry, digital elevation models, slope, derived products, DEMs, TINs"
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        },
        {
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            "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"
        },
        {
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            "code": "013",
            "name": "location",
            "scope": "Positional information and services, for example addresses, geodetic networks, geodetic control points, postal zones and services, place names, geographic names"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
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    "image": [
        {
            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/5f3abebd82ce8df5b6c407ac?name=CapeCod_SWASH_StudyArea_BrowseGraphic.png",
            "description": "Map showing the Cape Cod SWASH study area and reference line."
        }
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