Comparing mean high water and high water line shorelines: Should prosy-datum offsets be incorporated into shoreline change analysis?

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 894-905

  Moore, Laura J ^a   Ruggiero, Peter ^b   List, Jeffrey H ^c  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal erosion; Coastal mapping; Lidar; Shoreline change

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL WATER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; SHORELINE CHANGE; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 33746829937     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/04-0401.1     Document Type: Article

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