NOAA Coastal Mapping: Intracoastal Waterway Shoreline, NC

NOAA's National Ocean Service provides high-resolution vector shoreline data for the Intracoastal Waterway from Western Bogue Sound to Bear Inlet, North Carolina. The data is compiled from imagery and structured using the Coastal Cartographic Object Attribute Source Table (C-COAST) attribution scheme. This resource is a member of the NOAA InPort catalog item 39808.

Use Cases

• Create coastal change maps based on high-resolution shoreline vectors.
• Integrate shoreline data into GIS systems based on the C-COAST attribution scheme.
• Perform geographic analysis of the Intracoastal Waterway based on the described line and point shapefiles.

Strengths

• Data is described as high-resolution and accurate.
• Attribution follows the NOAA-developed C-COAST scheme, designed for compatibility with standards like S-57.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Compiled from imagery via office interpretation.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 20:04:12.898348; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Intracoastal Waterway, Western Bogue Sound to Bear Inlet, North Carolina