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Stafford County, Virginia Shoreline Inventory Report Methods and Guidelines
Berman, Marcia Nunez, Karinna Killeen, Sharon Rudnicky, Tamia Bradshaw, Julie Duhring, Karen Stanhope, David Weiss, David Hershner, Carl
Berman, Marcia
Nunez, Karinna
Killeen, Sharon
Rudnicky, Tamia
Bradshaw, Julie
Duhring, Karen
Stanhope, David
Weiss, David
Hershner, Carl
Abstract
The data inventory developed for the Shoreline Inventory is based on a three tiered shoreline assessment approach. This assessment characterizes conditions that can be observed from a small boat navigating along the shoreline or by using observations made remotely at the desktop using high resolution imagery. The three tiered shoreline assessment approach divides the shorezone into three regions: 1) the immediate riparian zone, evaluated for land use; 2) the bank, evaluated for height, cover and natural protection; and 3) the shoreline, describing the presence of shoreline structures for shore protection and recreational purposes. The 2015 Inventory for Stafford County was generated using on-screen, digitizing techniques in ArcGIS® - ArcMap v10.2.2 while viewing conditions observed in 2015 Bing high resolution oblique imagery and 2013 imagery from the Virginia Base Mapping Program (VBMP). These data sources allowed the inventory to be generated without additional field work. Three GIS shapefiles are developed. The first describes land use and bank conditions (StaffordCo_lubc_2015). The second reports shoreline structures that are described as arcs or lines (StaffordCo _sstru_2015). The final shapefile includes all structures that are represented as points (StaffordCo _astru_2015)
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2015-09-01
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Shoreline Inventory Reports
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Special Reports in Applied Marine Science and Ocean Engineering (SRAMSOE), Shoreline Inventories, Virginia, GIS, Management, Data
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Berman, M.R., Nunez, K., Killeen, S., Rudnicky, T., Bradshaw, J., Duhring, K., Stanhope, D., Weiss, D. and Hershner, C.H. 2015. Stafford County, Virginia - Shoreline Inventory Report: Methods and Guidelines, SRAMSOE no.445, Comprehensive Coastal Inventory Program, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia, 23062
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https://doi.org/10.21220/V56B12