Historical shorelines on Wreck Island of the Virginia Coast Reserve 1888-2003

This dataset consists of two components. An ArcGIS "shapefile" containing digitized boundary lines for the shoreline of Wreck Island for the years 1888 (partial), 1911 (partial), 1942, 1959, 1980 obtained from a NOAA coastal change map (1:24,000), 1994 (from USGS orthophotos) and October 2003 (after hurricane Isabel, from ETM+ Landsat 7 image). A mosaic of the 1994 orthophotos is also included as a GeoTIFF formated image. All data is in UTM zone 18N and uses the NAD83 datum.