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Historical Shoreline Changes at Rincón, Puerto Rico, 1936-2006


Table 1. Data sources used in this study and their associated error estimates.

[GPS, Global Positioning System]

Shoreline
year
Source

1936

Rectified digital air photo

1950/1951

Air photo (Thieler and Carlo, 1995)

1963

Air photo (Thieler and Carlo, 1995)

1971

Air photo (Thieler and Carlo, 1995)

1974

Air photo (Thieler and Carlo, 1995)

1977

Air photo (Thieler and Carlo, 1995)

1983

Rectified digital air photo

1987

Air photo (Thieler and Carlo, 1995)1

1989

Air photo (Thieler and Carlo, 1995)

1994

GPS

2004

Digital orthophoto

2005

GPS

2006

GPS

Shoreline positions produced by methods of Thieler and Carlo (1995),and those produced by digitizing from a rectified digital air photo were compared. Shoreline positions are  statistically similar. Data from Thieler and Carlo (1995) were used.

 

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