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    "tag": 19426,
    "title": "Shorelines for the Long Island Sound coastal region used in shoreline change analysis: Connecticut (1883-2016) and New York (1931-2014)",
    "pubdate": "20250922",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/P1TKEDFX",
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    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/SB_data_release\/DR_P1TKEDFX\/LIS_shorelines_metadata.faq.html",
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    "descript": "The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) maintains shoreline positions for the United States coasts from various historical sources, such as aerial photographs or topographic surveys, and contemporary sources, such as lidar-point clouds and digital elevation models. Shorelines are compiled in a geographic informaitoin system (GIS) and analyzed in the USGS Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) software to calculate rates of change. Keeping a record of historical shoreline positions is an effective method to monitor change over time, enabling scientists to identify areas most susceptible to erosion or accretion. These data can help coastal managers understand which areas of the coast are vulnerable to change. This data release, and other associated products, represents an expansion of the USGS national-scale shoreline database to include Long Island Sound (LIS) covering coastal areas in New York and Connecticut. The shoreline positions and shoreline change rates provide actionable information to homeowners, coastal communities, and managers of public and private properties to improve resiliency for coastal hazards in Long Island Sound.",
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Henderson, Rachel E.",
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        {
            "name": "Kratzmann, Meredith G.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Farris, Amy S.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Lentz, Erika E.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Himmelstoss, Emily A.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
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        {
            "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"
        },
        {
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            "code": "474",
            "name": "geospatial datasets",
            "scope": "Collections of related digital information that are geographically referenced."
        },
        {
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            "code": "007",
            "name": "environment",
            "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": 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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            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/67bfb060d34e8876fcbfc9c9?name=LIS_shorelines.jpg&allowOpen=true",
            "description": "Map view of data, blue line indicates the linear extent of the shorelines."
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