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Digital Great Britain coastlines (DiGBcoast v1.0): a dataset of the coastline position of Great Britain from 1984 to 2022 derived from publicly available optica

DiGBcoast v1.0 is a dataset of the coastline position of Great Britain produced by the British Geological Survey (BGS), derived from Landsat-5/8 and Sentinel-2 optical satellite imagery, covering 1984 to 2022, including instantaneous waterlines and tidally corrected shorelines.

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ProducerBritish Geological Survey (BGS)

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Key facts

InstitutionBritish Geological Survey (BGS) / NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre
CoverageGreat Britain mainland (England, Scotland, Wales) including Isle of Wight and Anglesey
Time span12/04/1984 to 15/12/2022
ScaleSee official page

Contents & fields

The dataset contains instantaneous waterlines and instantaneous tidally corrected to Mean Sea Level shorelines, provided in GeoPackage (GPKG) format with QGIS style file (QML) and text file (TXT). No field-level description is publicly available on the source page.

Research uses

Suitable for coastline change monitoring, coastal erosion assessment, coastal management, and climate change impact studies.

Information comes from the source page. Please check that page for current details and terms.

Keywords

coastlineGreat BritainLandsatSentinel-2tidal correctionopen data

Access and licence

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Why this is hard to get on your own

When acquiring long-term coastline data for Great Britain, one often needs to integrate multi-source satellite imagery and perform tidal correction; this dataset provides ready-to-use corrected shorelines, saving preprocessing time.

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