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| | | Shoreline Mapping |
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| | U. S. Shoreline mapping through aerial photography | | | | Since the late 1930s, high-resolution, georeferenced aerial photography for defining the nation’s 95,000-mile shoreline has been a responsibility of the National Geodetic Survey, part of NOAA’s National Ocean Service (NOS). Precision aerial photography is the primary source material used for creating coastal survey maps and digital cartographic files. These data sets, in turn, provide data for producing NOAA nautical charts.
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 | | | | | Panel finds serious threats from coastal population growth, pollution, overfishing
by John Heilprin, Associated Press, Environmental News Network 24 September 2002 | |
| | Six months before the first man landed on the moon, a presidential commission urged Congress to use more "fully and wisely" a different sort of vastness, one teeming with life but just as mysterious and far closer to home: the world's oceans. | |
Read more at http://enn.com/news/wire ... 48507.asp.
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