Geometrically corrected image mosaic of 1983 aerial photographs of Rincon, Puerto Rico (mosaic_1983.tif)

Description

The 8 km of shoreline from Punta Higuero to Punta Cadena in Rincón, Puerto Rico is experiencing long-term coastal erosion. This study documents historical shoreline changes at Rincón for the period 1936-2005. Twelve historical shoreline positions were compiled from existing data, new orthophotography, and GPS field surveys.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1017/htmldocs/data_catalog.html
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.739fbe94-e5cc-4bff-88f5-447e715ead49.xml

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  • u-s-army-corps-of-engineers
  • coastal-processes
  • puerto-rico
  • image-mosaics
  • coastal-survey-map
  • beach-erosion
  • aerial-photography
  • punta-higuero
  • whsc
  • beach-nourishment
  • cmgp
  • u-s-geological-survey
  • geospatial-datasets
  • geotiff-image
  • coastal-and-marine-geology-program
  • usgs-739fbe94-e5cc-4bff-88f5-447e715ead49
  • usgs
  • shoreline
  • woods-hole-science-center
  • historic-shoreline
  • usace
  • aerial-photograph
  • imagerybasemapsearthcover
  • rincon

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