Digital Shoreline Analysis System version 4.3 shoreline intersection points used to calculate short-term (Linear Regression Rate) shoreline change statistics for the Buzzards Bay coastal region from Nobska Point in Woods Hole, to Westport at the Rhode Island border (BuzzardsBay_intersects_STlr.shp)

Due to continued coastal population growth and increased threats of erosion, current data on trends and rates of shoreline movement are required to inform shoreline and floodplain management. The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management launched the Shoreline Change Project in 1989 to identify erosion-prone areas of the coast. In 2001, a 1994 shoreline was added to calculate both long- and short-term shoreline change rates at 40-meter intervals along ocean-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast. The Coastal and Marine Geology Program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, has compiled reliable historical shoreline data along open-facing sections of the Massachusetts coast under the Massachusetts Shoreline Change Mapping and Analysis Project 2013 Update. Two oceanfront shorelines for Massachusetts (approximately 1,800 km in total length) were (1) delineated using 2008/09 color aerial orthoimagery, and (2) extracted from topographic LIDAR datasets (2007) obtained from NOAA's Ocean Service, Coastal Services Center. The new shorelines were integrated with existing Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management and USGS historical shoreline data in order to compute long- and short-term rates using the latest version of the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS).受沿海人口持续增长与海岸侵蚀威胁加剧影响，当前亟需获取海岸线变迁趋势与速率的相关数据，以支撑海岸线与洪泛区的管理工作。1989年，马萨诸塞州海岸带管理办公室（Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management）启动了海岸线变化项目，旨在识别海岸易受侵蚀区域。2001年，该项目补充了1994年的海岸线数据，用于计算马萨诸塞州面向海洋的海岸段以40米为间隔的长、短期海岸线变迁速率。 美国地质调查局（U.S. Geological Survey, USGS）海岸与海洋地质项目联合马萨诸塞州海岸带管理办公室，依托《马萨诸塞州海岸线变化制图与分析项目2013年更新版》，对马萨诸塞州面向开阔海域的海岸段开展了可靠的历史海岸线数据整编工作。该数据集包含两条马萨诸塞州滨海海岸线（总长度约1800千米）：其一通过2008/2009年度彩色航空正射影像勾勒界定，其二则从美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）海洋服务中心海岸服务部获取的2007年地形激光雷达（LIDAR）数据集提取得到。研究团队将新获取的海岸线数据与马萨诸塞州海岸带管理办公室及美国地质调查局现存的历史海岸线数据进行整合，借助最新版数字海岸线分析系统（Digital Shoreline Analysis System, DSAS）计算长、短期海岸线变迁速率。