Date of Award
2021
Document Type
Open Access Master's Report
Degree Name
Master of Geographic Information Science
Administrative Home Department
College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science
Advisor 1
Mickey P Jarvi
Advisor 2
Michael D Hyslop
Committee Member 1
Guy A Meadows
Abstract
This five-year project, sponsored by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, is working to map how Michigan’s Great Lakes shorelines have changed over the past 80+ years. Products of this project include publicly available digital, georeferenced, historic aerial photography datasets, as well as map layers depicting the locations of historic shorelines and bluff lines from 1938, 1980, 2009, 2016, 2018, and 2020. Additional products include bluff retreat risk areas, shoreline rate of change map layers, and tools to assist in the development of future Coastal Vulnerability Index projects for the Great Lakes. All products are available as publicly accessible maps, apps, and feature services at https://portal1-geo.sabu.mtu.edu/mtuarcgis/apps/sites/#/czmp
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Williams, Ryan A., "Mapping Michigan's Historic Coastlines", Open Access Master's Report, Michigan Technological University, 2021.
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