According to the Kodiak Daily Mirror, NOAA Fisheries' Alaska ShoreZone Coastal Habitat mapping program has finished recording every nook and cranny of Kodiak Island's coastline, and all the study's photographs and videos have been made available to the public online. Other areas of Alaska will soon appear online as well. The whole mapping effort, which started in 2002 and has covered much of the Gulf of Alaska's coastline, has been conducted through aerial surveys, and the full data set contains both biological and topographical information about intertidal zones, the areas between high and low tide. Read much more, here, and find the main page of the ShoreZone Alaska program, here. Flying the coastline virtually isn't just a point-and-click endeavor, though. Learn how to use the interface, here.
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Kodiak coastline (all of it) mapped and available online
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