Shoreline Type Mapping of the Upper Texas Coast Using ESI Rankings

The shoreline of upper Texas Coast (UTM15) was digitized and classified at a scale of 1:1000 to create an environmental sensitivity index (ESI) dataset for the coastline between East Matagorda Bay and Sabine Lake at the Texas-Louisiana border. The shoreline was mapped using a bare-earth 2m DEM created with LiDAR collected between 2007–2019, NAIP 60cm imagery collected in 2020, high-resolution aerial imagery accessed through EagleView, and ground-checking in the field.