Date (Creation)

2024-03-13

Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608211

Maintenance and update frequency

notApplicable notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

• Coasts
• Monitoring
• NGDC Deposited Data
• EGDI
• Citable Data
• Landsat
• Erosion

dataCentre

• NGDC Deposited Data
• EGDI
• Citable Data

Keywords

• NERC_DDC

Access constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints

licenceOGL

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Use constraints

otherRestrictions Other restrictions

Other constraints

The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints

Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Metadata language

EnglishEnglish

Topic category

• Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier

GBN

Date (Revision)

2009

Geographic identifier

GREAT BRITAIN [id=139600]

Date (Creation)

1979

Begin date

1984-03-12

End date

2022-12-15

Unique resource identifier

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Distribution format

• OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) ( witheld )

• QGIS style file (QML) ( witheld )

• Text file (TXT) ( witheld )

OnLine resource

Data ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

OnLine resource

Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )

Payo, A., Jenkins, G.O., Gafeira, J., Torrecillas, C., Beck, A-L., Baxter, H., Taji, M.A., Coombs, B., Jones, M. (2024). Digital Great Britain coastlines (DiGBcoast v1.0): a dataset of the coastline position of Great Britain from 1984 to 2022 derived from publicly available optical satellite imagery. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/903023c7-a58e-48d6-b2b7-5de4b096a4fe

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Other

dataset

Statement

This dataset has been produced following a five steps process; 1) ensuring that all suitable satellite images are collected using an innovative bespoke filtering method; 2) geolocation of each single satellite image to high resolution 25 cm geolocated aerial imagery; 3) co-registration of the geolocated satellite images from the newest (2022) to the oldest (1984); generation of vector waterlines per satellite image using adaptive thresholding to maximize the signal to noise ratio, the marching squares algorithm for interpixel line delineation and graded the waterlines on structural properties for quality control ensuring that only high confidence waterlines are passed through the shoreline processor and final step; 5) waterlines are converted into theoretical shorelines using auxiliary data collected on slope, tide height, mean sea level height and the sea bearing at the sensing time.

File identifier

139ce952-8255-1ebb-e063-0937940a54fb XML

Metadata language

EnglishEnglish

Hierarchy level

dataset Dataset

Date stamp

2025-12-15

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Dataset URI

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608211