Global Ecological Classification of Coastal Segment Units

Description

A new data layer provides global coastal segments at 1 km or shorter resolution produced from a partitioning of a 30 m Landsat-derived shoreline vector that was segmented into 4 million 1 km or shorter segments. Each segment was attributed with values from 10 variables that represent the ecological settings in which the coastline occurs, including properties of the adjacent water, adjacent land, and coastline itself. The 4 million segments were classified into 81,000 coastal segment units (CSUs) as unique combinations of variable classes.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.63c74df2d34e06fef14ec038.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HWHSPU

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  • usgs-63c74df2d34e06fef14ec038
  • coastlines

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