Digital Shoreline Analysis System
Digital Shoreline Analysis System
The Digital Shoreline Analysis System calculates changes in shorelines and presents it using GIS.
- Developer
- NOAA
- Model Information
- For more information about this model, go to Digital Shoreline Analysis System (noaa.gov)
- Spatial Resolution
- depends on user input
- Temporal Resolution
- depends on user input
- Outputs
- Calculates rate of shoreline movement (or movement of a similarly describable moving feature).
- Intended User
- practitioner
- Model Type
- coastal
- Inclusion of Climate Change
- Climate conditions are not explicitly incorporated.
- Geographic Region
- generalized
- Data Requirements
- ArcGIS data with explicit time steps
- Source Code Availability
- open source
- Dimensions
- 2d
- Computational Burden
- high
- Scenario Modeling
- not available
- Coding Language
- ArcGIS
- Operating System
- windows
- Mathematical Approach
- spatial analysis
- Maintenance Plan
- not available
- Date of Last Known Update
- not available
- User Manual
- Documentation link not available
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