NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer

This website enables interactive selection of a section of shoreline and provides downloading capabilities. ESRI's software was used to clean and edgematch datasets within a surveyed project area. These data provide a Geographic Information System data layer depicting an accurate high-resolution shoreline. These shoreline data depicts an interpreted shoreline, for example, the Mean High Water line or lake level at time of survey. The NGS's attribution scheme 'Coastal Cartographic Object Attribute Source Table (C-COAST) was developed to conform the attribution of various sources of shoreline data into one attribution catalog. C-COAST is not a recognized standard but was influenced by the International Hydrographic Organization's S-57 Object-Attribute standard so that the data would be more accurately translated into S-57.