Development: Development delineation: Rockaway Peninsula, NY, 2010–2011
type: Dataset
description: Understanding how sea-level rise will affect coastal landforms and the species and habitats they support is critical for crafting approaches that balance the needs of humans and native species. Given this increasing need to forecast sea-level rise effects on barrier islands in the near and long terms, we are developing Bayesian networks to evaluate and to forecast the cascading effects of sea-level rise on shoreline change, barrier island state, and piping plover habitat availability. We use publicly available data products, such as lidar, orthophotography, and geomorphic feature sets derived from those, to extract metrics of barrier island characteristics at consistent sampling distances. The metrics are then incorporated into predictive models and the training data used to parameterize those models. This data release contains the extracted metrics of barrier island geomorphology and spatial data layers of habitat characteristics that are input to Bayesian networks for piping plover habitat availability and barrier island geomorphology. These datasets and models are being developed for sites along the northeastern coast of the United States. This work is one component of a larger research and management program that seeks to understand and sustain the ecological value, ecosystem services, and habitat suitability of beaches in the face of storm impacts, climate change, and sea-level rise.
keyword: amerigeo
keyword: amerigeoss
keyword: atlantic-ocean
keyword: barrier-island
keyword: ckan
keyword: cmgp
keyword: coastal-and-marine-geology-program
keyword: coastal-armoring
keyword: coastal-habitat
keyword: coastal-hazards
keyword: environment
keyword: gateway-national-recreation-area
keyword: geo
keyword: geographic-information-systems
keyword: geospatial-datasets
keyword: geoss
keyword: gis
keyword: human-development
keyword: land-use-and-land-cover
keyword: long-island
keyword: national
keyword: new-york
keyword: north-america
keyword: ny
keyword: rockaway-peninsula
keyword: st-petersburg-coastal-and-marine-science-center
keyword: u-s-geological-survey
keyword: united-states
keyword: usa
keyword: usgs
keyword: usgs-5d0bc951e4b0941bde4fc63b
keyword: woods-hole-coastal-and-marine-science-center
issued: 2025-11-22T19:41:25.180528
modified: 20200810
theme: {geospatial}
contact point: Organization
  fn: Sara L. Zeigler
spatial: Location

US Migrating
type: Agent

Original Metadata
type: Distribution
description: The metadata original format
media type: text/xml
format: XML
access URL: https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5d0bc951e4b0941bde4fc63b.xml
issued: 2022-07-07T15:15:42.658268
modified: 2025-11-22T19:41:25.163553

Digital Data
type: Distribution
description: Landing page for access to the data
media type: application/http
format: XML
access URL: https://doi.org/10.5066/P944FPA4
issued: 2022-07-07T15:15:42.658275
modified: 2025-11-22T19:41:25.163982