Title: Bahamas Shoreline Type for InVEST Coastal Vulnerability Model, 2019
- Not specified
- 2019
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Stanford)
Dates
- Issued: 2019
- Coverage: 2019
Publishers
- Natural Capital Project
Summary
The Bahamas Shoreline Type for InVEST Coastal Vulnerability Model was used for the analysis in Silver JM, Arkema KK, Griffin RM, Lashley B, Lemay M, Maldonado S, Moultrie SH, Ruckelshaus M, Schill S, Thomas A, Wyatt K and Verutes G (2019) Advancing Coastal Risk Reduction Science and Implementation by Accounting for Climate, Ecosystems, and People. Frontiers in Marine Science 6:556. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00556. The shoreline is divided into homogeneous segments based on the geomorphology of the beach. The attribute ShoreType is assigned to one of four classes: sand, mud, rock, or seawall. Each shoreline type is assigned a relative exposure rank from 1 (low exposure) to 5 (high exposure) to indicate how susceptible the shore type is to erosion and inundation. For this analysis, the following ranks were used: mud=4, rock=3, sand=5, seawall=2. The Shoreline Type layer with relative exposure ranks was an input layer to the InVest Coastal Vulnerability model used for the 2019 Bahamas Coastal Hazard Analysis. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection. Advancing Coastal Risk Reduction Science and Implementation by Accounting for Climate, Ecosystems, and People https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00556.
Subjects
- Environment
- Oceans
- Bahamas
- Caribbean Sea
- Coastal ecosystem health
- Coastal protection
- Coastal habitats
- Coastal hazards
- Ecosystem services
- Social vulnerability
- Sea level rise
- Natural and nature-based features
- InVEST Coastal Vulnerability model
- Natural Capital Project
- Shorelines
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-79.306084, -72.712001, 27.267411, 20.912056)
- Geometry: BBOX (-79.306084, -72.712001, 27.267411, 20.912056)
Provider
Stanford
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Silver, Jessica, Arkema, Katie. Bahamas Shoreline Type for InVEST Coastal Vulnerability Model, 2019. Natural Capital Project. https://purl.stanford.edu/bd983nn3002
Format
Shapefile
Languages
- English