Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) version 5.0 user guide

TLDR

The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) is a free, ArcGIS‑integrated tool released in December 2018 that can compute boundary‑change rates for coastal and other geographic features such as glaciers, rivers, or land‑use limits. DSAS calculates rate‑of‑change statistics from shoreline vector time series, requires ArcGIS 10.4/10.5, runs on Windows 7/10, and involves installing the software, setting up transects, and providing the necessary input data. Version 5.0 was released in December 2018 and has been verified to work with ArcGIS 10.4 and.

Abstract

First posted December 21, 2018 For additional information, contact: Director, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science CenterU.S. Geological Survey384 Woods Hole RoadQuissett CampusWoods Hole, MA 02543 The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) is a freely available software application that works within the Esri Geographic Information System (ArcGIS) software. DSAS computes rate-of-change statistics for a time series of shoreline vector data. DSAS version 5.0 (v5.0) was released in December 2018 and has been tested for compatibility with ArcGIS versions 10.4 and 10.5. It is supported on Windows 7 and Windows 10 operating systems. If you use it, please cite it as follows and make note of the current version:Himmelstoss, E.A., Farris, A.S., Henderson, R.E., Kratzmann, M.G., Ergul, Ayhan, Zhang, Ouya, Zichichi, J.L., Thieler, E. R., 2018, Digital Shoreline Analysis System (version 5.0): U.S. Geological Survey software release, https://code.usgs.gov/cch/dsas.This user guide describes the system requirements, installation procedures, and necessary inputs to establish measurement locations with DSAS-generated transects and compute rate-of-change calculations. Although the nomenclature for this software utility is based on use in a coastal environment, the DSAS application could be used to compute rates of change for any boundary-change problem that incorporates a clearly identified feature position at discrete times, such as glacier limits, river banks, or land use/cover boundaries.