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| | Metadata Profile for Shoreline Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The purpose is to clarify (standardize) some of the complexities of shoreline data by developing a metadata profile, bibliography and glossary, which will be an extension or profile of the FGDC CSDGM. |
 | | Shoreline data are important for coastal zone management, environmental monitoring, resource developments, legal land jurisdictional issues, ocean and meteorological modeling, engineering, construction, planning, and many other uses. |
 | | Shoreline is an integral component of the geospatial data framework. |
| www.fgdc.gov /standards/status/sub5_6.html (473 words) |
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