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    "tag": 15403,
    "title": "Digital elevation models (DEMs) of coastal North Carolina, on 2019-10-11, one month Post-Hurricane Dorian",
    "pubdate": "20221011",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/P9K3TWY7",
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    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/pcmsc\/DataReleases\/ScienceBase\/DR_P9K3TWY7\/201910_DEM_NC_metadata.faq.html",
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    "descript": "Digital elevation models (DEMs) were created from aerial imagery collected October 11, 2019, along the North Carolina coast between the Virginia-North Carolina border vicinity and Cape Lookout, North Carolina. These DEMs were created to document ground conditions one-month after Hurricane Dorian, which made landfall on the North Carolina coast on September 6, 2019. The DEMs help researchers estimate the land surface one-month post-Hurricane Dorian and were created to document inter-annual changes in shoreline position and coastal morphology in response to storm events using aerial imagery collections and a structure from motion (SFM) workflow. These data can be used with geographic information systems or other software to identify topographic and shallow-water bathymetric features.",
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Ritchie, Andrew C.",
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        {
            "name": "Over, Jin-Si R.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Kranenburg, Christine J.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Brown, Jenna A.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Buscombe, Daniel D.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Sherwood, Christopher R.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Warrick, Jonathan A.",
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        {
            "name": "Wernette, Phillipe A.",
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            "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"
        },
        {
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            "name": "digital elevation models",
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        },
        {
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        },
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        },
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        {
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            "scope": "Mathematical analysis, using photogrammetric principles, of multiple images that depict the same subject from different angles to derive geometrical information and relationships in three-dimensional space that are not inherent in any single image. Often used for deriving land elevation or large scale orthoimagery from a collection of aerial photographs."
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        },
        {
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            "scope": "Includes measures of the geologic and structural characteristics of the coast or sea floor, such as the features defined in the Geoform Component of CMECS. Distributions are detailed topographic and bathymetric maps, geolocated photographs, or sea-floor descriptions; Distributions includes maps that interpret observations to categorize areas on the basis of geoform types such as those in CMECS. Assessment types include evaluations of ecological or human use value and can include models that project environmental or economic effects of erosion, climate change, dredging, and other stressors. Predictions are the results of models or projections of future distributions, values, or ecological impacts of physical habitats, including predicted changes due to natural and human forces; they are also from scenario-based models of resource losses, gains, or impacts on ecological or economic values under different management strategies (for example, mining, removal, relocation, or the building of structures)."
        },
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            "code": "139",
            "name": "barrier island",
            "scope": "an elongate island that is parallel to the shore and separated from the mainland by a bay or lagoon."
        },
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            "code": "112",
            "name": "beach",
            "scope": "a gently sloping shore, generally underlain by sand or gravel and subject to the action of waves and tides."
        },
        {
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            "name": "fragile ecosystems",
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        },
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            "name": "geographic information systems (GIS)",
            "scope": "geographic subdiscipline that employs computer systems to manage, analyze, and display spatial information."
        },
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            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "356",
            "name": "hurricanes and typhoons",
            "scope": "tropical cyclonic storms."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "449",
            "name": "remote sensing",
            "scope": "generally used for the acquisition of images or other data from aircraft or satellites; also used for ground-based systems for collecting data at a distance."
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            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/619d357cd34eb622f69526e3?name=201910_DEM_NC_example.JPG&allowOpen=true",
            "description": "Example segment of an elevation-colored digital elevation model from 2019-10-11."
        }
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    "fan": [
        "2019-312-CNT"
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