Georeferenced Scans of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) T-Sheets Collected Along the New Jersey Coastline from 1839-1875

Description

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_t-sheets.zip features 8 georeferenced raster t-sheets 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 using ArcGIS 10.3.1. GEoreferenced t-sheets were used to delineate and shorelines for use in long-term shoreline and wetland analyses for Hurricane Sandy wetland physical change assessment.

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Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.2c360d9c-0d3c-4b9d-a9ec-4e40d71071ca.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F7KH0KFX

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  • environment
  • great-bay
  • topography
  • reed-bay
  • coastal-processes
  • geomorphology
  • new-jersey
  • oceans
  • digitization
  • little-egg-harbor
  • atlantic-ocean
  • usgs-2c360d9c-0d3c-4b9d-a9ec-4e40d71071ca
  • shoreline-map
  • topographic-sheet
  • absecon-bay
  • coastal
  • t-sheet
  • manahawkin-bay
  • geoscientificinformation
  • little-bay
  • georeferenced
  • inlandwaters
  • boundaries
  • usa
  • barnegat-bay
  • shoreline-data
  • nj

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