Shapefile of Historical New Jersey Shoreline Data Derived from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 1839-1875 T-Sheets

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Identification_Information
Data_Quality_Information
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
Spatial_Reference_Information
Entity_and_Attribute_Information
Distribution_Information
Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Joseph F. Terrano
Originator: Kathryn E.L. Smith
Publication_Date: 20160718
Title:

Shapefile of Historical New Jersey Shoreline Data Derived from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 1839-1875 T-Sheets

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Vector Digital Data Set (Polyline)
Series_Information:

Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Data Release
Issue_Identification: doi:10.5066/F7KH0KFX

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: St. Petersburg, FL
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/data-release/doi-F7KH0KFX/

Description:

Abstract:

Historical shoreline surveys were conducted by the National Ocean Service (NOS), dating back to the early 1800s. The maps resulting from these surveys, often called t-sheets, provide a reference of historical shoreline position that can be compared to modern data to identify shoreline change. The t-sheets are stored at the National Archives and many have been scanned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and are available on the NOAA Shoreline Web site (http://www.shoreline.noaa.gov/data/datasheets/t-sheets.html). While some scanned t-sheets were georeferenced and digitized by NOAA, still others remain as non-georeferenced raster files (http://nosimagery.noaa.gov/images/shoreline_surveys/survey_scans/NOAA_Shoreline_Survey_Scans.html). New_Jersey_1839_75_Digitized_Shoreline.zip features a digitized historic shoreline for the New Jersey coastline from 1839 to 1875. The data were scanned by NOAA, but were not georeferenced. The t-sheets included in this data release are: T-121 (1839), T-119 Part 1 (1841), T-1084 (1868), T-1166 (1870), T-1333 (1871), T-1315a (1872), T-1371 (1874), T-1407 (1875). Digital files were georeferenced, corrected to a modern datum, and shorelines digitized to provide a vector polyline depicting the historical shoreline position. All shorelines, including the foreshore, backshore, mainland and island shorelines were delineated and digitized for each survey using ArcMap 10.3.1. These shorelines were digitized for use in long-term shoreline and wetland analyses for Hurricane Sandy wetland physical change assessment.

Purpose:

Shoreline data are considered a crucial element in performing change analysis for erosion and accretion studies and for tracking shoreline movement over time. T-Sheets were downloaded, georeferenced and digitized to document the short and long-term changes of select study areas along the New Jersey coastline. Digitized shorelines from the t-sheets provide an accurate and measurable change in shape, area, and shoreline movement over short- and long- term periods.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 18390101
Ending_Date: 18750101

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -74.525620272
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -74.041838758
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 40.072202935
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 39.315238553

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier
Theme_Keyword: USGS:68368947-d712-4ca9-907f-a665567a18bc

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: t-sheet
Theme_Keyword: Coastal
Theme_Keyword: Shoreline data
Theme_Keyword: Shoreline map
Theme_Keyword: Digitization
Theme_Keyword: Georeferenced
Theme_Keyword: Topographic sheet

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: Oceans
Theme_Keyword: Environment
Theme_Keyword: Boundaries
Theme_Keyword: GeoscientificInformation

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: NJ
Place_Keyword: Barnegat Bay
Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean
Place_Keyword: New Jersey
Place_Keyword: USA
Place_Keyword: Manahawkin Bay
Place_Keyword: Little Egg Harbor
Place_Keyword: Great Bay
Place_Keyword: Little Bay
Place_Keyword: Reed Bay
Place_Keyword: Absecon Bay

Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:

The U.S. Geological Survey requests to be acknowledged as originator of the data in future products or derivative research.

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Science Center
Contact_Person: Joseph F. Terrano

Contact_Position: Researcher I
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical
Address: 600 4Th Street South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-502-8047
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-502-8182
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jterrano@usgs.gov

Data_Set_Credit:

Acknowledgment of the U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, as a data source would be appreciated in products developed from these data, and such acknowledgment as is standard for citation and legal practices. Sharing of new data layers developed directly from these data would also be appreciated by the U.S. Geological Survey staff. Users should be aware that comparisons with other datasets for the same area from other time periods may be inaccurate due to inconsistencies resulting from changes in photointerpretation, mapping conventions, and digital processes over time. These data are not legal documents and are not to be used as such.

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Environment as of Metadata Creation: Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.3.1 (Build 4959) Service Pack N/A (Build N/A)

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report: No formal attribute accuracy tests were conducted.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Digitized shorelines were checked to ensure they were one continuous line, with the exception of the 1839 and 1841 shorelines. The 1839 and 1841 shorelines were earlier dates than surrounding shorelines (1866-75), so they were not connected and were left “as is”, with some overlap of the shoreline positions to ensure no gaps were present. The remaining shorelines were checked for dangles (or extra line segments), which were removed, when necessary. The shorelines were split into foreshore, backshore, mainland, and islands based on a visual assessment. Small islands and creeks were not digitized as they were not necessary for this study. Larger creeks and rivers were digitized as much as necessary to ensure a complete shoreline for later use within shoreline change programs.

Completeness_Report:

Dataset is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

A formal accuracy assessment of the horizontal positional information in the dataset has not been conducted.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

A formal accuracy assessment of the vertical positional information in the dataset has either not been conducted, or is not applicable.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

United States Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), National Geodetic Survey (NGS)

Publication_Date: 20141020
Title:

Non-georeferenced NOAA Shoreline Survey Scans (t-sheets and tp-sheets)

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Raster Digital Data Set
Online_Linkage:

http://nosimagery.noaa.gov/images/shoreline_surveys/survey_scans/NOAA_Shoreline_Survey_Scans.html

Source_Scale_Denominator: 1500
Type_of_Source_Media: Digital and/or Hardcopy Resources
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 18390101
Ending_Date: 18750101

Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: New Jersey t-sheets
Source_Contribution:

T-sheets were used to identify the shoreline location for shoreline delineation and digitization.

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Hapke, C.J., Himmelstoss, E.A., Kratzmann, M., List, J.H., and Thieler, E.R.

Publication_Date: 2010
Title:

National Assessment of Shoreline Change: Historical Shoreline Change along the New England and Mid-Atlantic Coasts

Series_Information:

Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey open file report
Issue_Identification: 2010-1118

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place:

U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1118/

Type_of_Source_Media: Digital report in the Portable Document Format (PDF)
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1844
Ending_Date: 2006

Source_Currentness_Reference: Ground Condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Hapke and others (2010)
Source_Contribution:

Report contains values representing the shoreline position uncertainty associated with the t-sheets, that was used in the shoreline change statistical computations.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

T-sheet maps created for the New Jersey coastline from 1839 to 1875 were downloaded from the NOAA shoreline website as non-georeferenced t-sheets. Downloaded t-sheets include: T-121 (1839), T-119 Part 1 (1841), T-1084 (1868), T-1166 (1870), T-1333 (1871), T-1315a (1872), T-1371 (1874), T-1407 (1875). Since T-1315b was not available T-119 Part 1 and T-121 were used to fill in the missing area. The t-sheets were projected into "NAD_1983_StatePlane_New_Jersey_FIPS_2900_Feet" as determined by using metadata provided with georeferenced New Jersey 1915 t-sheets that was previously completed by NOAA. The t-sheets were then reprojected into the North American Datum of 1927 for georeferencing. Each t-sheet was georeferenced on a case by case basis, see "Notes" field in the attribute table for more information. To digitize the shorelines, the georeferenced t-sheets were added to ArcMap 10.3.1. Using the ArcMap editor toolbar, the foreshore, backshore, mainland and islands were digitized based on a visual assessment of shoreline locations within the imagery at a scale of 1:1500. For consistency, small islands and creeks were not digitized, since they were not necessary for the shoreline change analysis. In addition, the following fields were added to the shoreline’s attribute table and calculated as necessary: "T_Sheet" (Text/25), "Year" (Text/10), "Shoreline_Location" (Text/50), "DATE_" (Text/25), "Accuracy" (Double), and "Notes" (Text/500).

Process_Date: 20160609

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Added keywords section with USGS persistent identifier as theme keyword.

Process_Date: 20201013
Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross

Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical
Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: String
Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 304

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Grid_Coordinate_System:

Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: Universal Transverse Mercator
Universal_Transverse_Mercator:

UTM_Zone_Number: 18
Transverse_Mercator:

Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.9996
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -75.0
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.0
False_Easting: 500000.0
False_Northing: 0.0

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair
Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 0.6096
Ordinate_Resolution: 0.6096

Planar_Distance_Units: Meter

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_North_American_1983
Ellipsoid_Name: GRS_1980
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222101

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: Attribute Table
Entity_Type_Definition:

Table containing attribute information associated with the data set.

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: Producer defined

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: T_Sheet
Attribute_Definition: Topographic sheet used to delineate and digitize the shoreline.
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Topographic sheet number in the "T-####" format.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Year
Attribute_Definition: 4-digit year in which the imagery was collected.
Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1839
Range_Domain_Maximum: 1875

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shoreline_
Attribute_Definition:

Shoreline classification used to separate foreshore, backshore, mainland, and island shorelines.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Shorelines classified as "Foreshore", "Backshore", "Mainland", and "Island" based on a visual assessment.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Date_
Attribute_Definition:

DDate imagery was collected for Breton Island using the "MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS" format. If no month and day were available, 01/01 was used.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 01/01/1839 12:00:00 AM
Range_Domain_Maximum: 01/01/1875 12:00:00 AM

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Accuracy
Attribute_Definition:

A value representing the shoreline position uncertainty associated with the imagery type, t-sheets, that was used in the shoreline change statistical computations reported by Hapke and others (2010).

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Enumerated_Domain:

Enumerated_Domain_Value: 11.7
Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition:

Uncertainty of the shoreline position, in meters, for t-sheet shorelines.

Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Notes
Attribute_Definition:

Additional information about the processing steps, describing how the t-sheet was georeferenced, shifted (if necessary), and digitized.

Attribute_Definition_Source: USGS
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Information about the attributes.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SHAPE_Leng
Attribute_Definition:

System-generated attribute field, which was automatically created by ArcGIS to indicate the feature length.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri
Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 22.915806099
Range_Domain_Maximum: 56614.6934502

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

The entity and attribute information provided here describes the tabular data associated with the dataset. Please review the detailed descriptions that are provided (the individual attribute descriptions) for information on the values that appear as fields/table entries of the dataset.

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:

The entity and attribute information was generated by the individual and/or agency identified as the originator of the dataset. Please review the rest of the metadata record for additional details and information.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Science Center
Contact_Person: Joseph F. Terrano

Contact_Position: Researcher I
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical
Address: 600 4Th Street South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-502-8047
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-502-8182
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jterrano@usgs.gov

Distribution_Liability:

This digital publication was prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution imply any such warranty. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and (or) contained herein. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: ArcGIS shapefile (Vector Digital Polyline Data)

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/data-release/doi-F7KH0KFX/data/New_Jersey_1839_75_Shoreline.zip

Fees: None. No fees are applicable for obtaining the dataset.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20201013
Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Joseph F. Terrano
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Science Center

Contact_Position: Researcher I
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical
Address: 600 4Th Street South
City: St. Petersburg
State_or_Province: FL
Postal_Code: 33701
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-502-8047
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-502-8182
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: jterrano@usgs.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata_Use_Constraints:

Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey as the originator of the dataset.

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