The profile method for lidar shoreline extraction (Farris and others, 2018) identifies an elevation-based shoreline from point cloud lidar data using a Matlab-based approach (Matlab version 2015b). Using a coast-following reference line with 20-meter spaced profiles, lidar data are analyzed within a two-meter swath around each profile. This method is used to extract MHW shoreline, slope, and uncertainty information. The slope data for each profile were saved. The slope at each profile was averaged over time using data from available lidar surveys 2000-2018. For more infomation regarding lidar shorelines for Georgia and Florida, see the shorelines metadata file associated with this dataset.
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