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Digital Shoreline Analysis System

U.S. Geological Survey

Stories from the Field

Building Technical Capacity in Coastal Maine
GIS service centers were established to build the technical capacity of coastal land trusts.

Capturing Local Knowledge to Inform Coral Reef Management in Hawai’i
A participatory process was used to map coastal-use data to reduce anthropogenic threats to coral reefs.

National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project
The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) is being used to calculate rates of long-term and short-term shoreline change along open-ocean sandy shores of the conterminous U.S. and parts of Alaska and Hawaii.