| Title | A coastal information system for the southeastern Beaufort Sea, Yukon and Northwest Territories |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Couture, N J ;
Forbes, D L; Fraser, P R; Frobel, D; Jenner, K A; Manson, G K;
Solomon, S M; Szlavko, B; Taylor, R B |
| Source | Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7778, 2015, 21 pages, https://doi.org/10.4095/295975  Open Access |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| File format | readme
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| File format | pdf; rtf; shp; pmf; gdb |
| Province | Yukon |
| NTS | 107B/11; 107B/12; 107C; 107D/12; 107D/13; 107D/14; 107E/02; 107E/03; 107E/04; 117A/08; 117A/09; 117A/10; 117A/13; 117A/14; 117A/15; 117A/16; 117C/01; 117C/07; 117C/08; 117D/02; 117D/03; 117D/04; 117D/05;
117D/06; 117D/12 |
| Area | Yukon Coast; Beaufort Sea; Komakuk; Kay Point; Herschel Island; Catton Point; Nunaluk Spit; Clarence Lagoon; Stokes Point West; Niakolik Point; Stokes Point; Shallow Bay; Mackenzie Delta; Shingle
Point |
| Lat/Long WENS | -141.0000 -129.0000 70.2500 68.5000 |
| Subjects | marine geology; surficial geology/geomorphology; Nature and Environment; coastal environment; coastal studies; coastal erosion; coastal management; vegetation; terrain management; shorelines; shoreline
changes; geographic information system |
| Illustrations | tables; location maps |
| Program | Climate Change Geoscience Coastal Infrastructure |
| Released | 2015 03 19 |
| Abstract | This report provides coastal data and a classification of the Canadian Beaufort Sea coast and is part of the Coastal Information System (CIS) maintained by the Geological Survey of Canada. Coastal
attributes such as the physical form of the coast and the materials which comprise it have been interpreted and mapped from aerial photography and video for over 1900 kilometres of coastline. These attributes are mapped as line segments for three
different shore-parallel zones: the backshore, the foreshore, and the nearshore. Additional points of interest such as water bodies, anthropogenic sites, or ground ice features are also mapped. Qualitative coastal change was mapped along select
portions of the coast based on the availability of repetitive, multi-year coastal video and imagery. A glossary has been developed to control the language used in the descriptions. The data are contained in a geographic information system. A
published map file is also included, which provides examples for displaying and symbolizing the CIS data. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
This report provides a classification of the Canadian Beaufort Sea coast and is part of the Coastal Information System (CIS) maintained by the Geological
Survey of Canada. Coastal attributes such as the physical form of the coast and the materials which comprise it have been interpreted and mapped from aerial photography and video. These attributes are mapped as line segments for three different zones
that run parallel to the coast: the backshore, the foreshore, and the nearshore. Additional points of interest such as water bodies, anthropogenic sites, or ground ice features are also mapped. Qualitative coastal change was mapped along select
portions of the coast based on the availability of overlapping, multi-year coastal video and imagery. A glossary has been developed to control the language used in the descriptions. The data are contained in a geographic information system. A
published map file is also included, which provides examples for displaying and symbolizing the CIS data. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 295975 |
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