Description
The 8 km of shoreline from Punta Higüero to Punta Cadena in Rincón, Puerto Rico is experiencing long-term coastal erosion. This study documents historical shoreline changes at Rincón for the period 1936-2006. Thirteen historical shoreline positions were compiled from existing data, new orthophotography, and GPS field surveys. Shoreline vectors represent the high water line at the time of the survey.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Data | XML | Landing page for access to the data | Open resource |
| Original Metadata | XML | The metadata original format | Open resource |
Tags
- antilles
- beach-erosion
- beach-nourishment
- carribbean
- cmgp
- coastal-and-marine-geology-program
- coastal-processes
- endpoint-rate
- erosion
- geoscientificinformation
- geospatial-datasets
- historic-shoreline
- marine-geology
- oceans
- puerto-rico
- punta-cadena
- punta-higuero
- rincon
- shoreline
- shoreline-accretion
- shoreline-change-rate
- short-term-shoreline-change
- transect
- u-s-geological-survey
- usgs
- usgs-dfbd16b1-e06b-4bdc-878d-86f78fc506cb
- whsc
- woods-hole-science-center