{
    "tag": 19147,
    "title": "River margin and braid shapefiles for the lower, middle, and upper reaches of the Elwha River, Washington, 2006 to 2022",
    "pubdate": "2025",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "doi:10.5066\/P13RXGHA",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/pcmsc\/DataReleases\/ScienceBase\/DR_P13RXGHA\/Elwha_margins_braids_metadata.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "This dataset provides GIS shapefiles of river margins and braids derived from 30 aerial imagery datasets of the Elwha River, Washington spanning June 2006 through September 2022. The extent of the river's recently active flow zone, or margins, and river braids was manually digitized in a GIS using aerial orthoimages to capture changes in the river prior to, during, and after the removal of the Glines Canyon and Elwha dams, which started in 2011 and ended in 2014. We used aerial orthoimages collected by the National Park Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Washington State Department of Transportation, and the National Agriculture Imaging Program, including 24 orthoimages derived from Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry using a plane-mounted camera system designed for the Elwha River Restoration Project (Ritchie and others, 2025). Five of the image sets were collected before dam removal (2006-2011) and 25 represent conditions during and after dam removal. To document changes associated with dam operations and dam removal, river margins and braids are provided for three separate reaches of the Elwha River: 1) the lower river, downstream of the historic Elwha Dam site, 2) the middle river, located between the former Lake Aldwell reservoir and the historic Glines Canyon Dam site and 3) a control reach located upstream of the former Lake Mills reservoir, at the downstream end of Geyser Valley where there is no influence of dams or dam removal on channel evolution.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Foxgrover, Amy C.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "East, Amy E.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ritchie, Andrew C.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
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            "code": "15",
            "name": "aerial photography",
            "scope": "The process of taking pictures with a camera from an aircraft. Use for both the process of photography from the air and the images produced by the process."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "375",
            "name": "field inventory and monitoring",
            "scope": "Repeated observation or sampling at a site, on a scheduled or event basis, for study and analysis.  In general, this category excludes sampling programs in which materials are obtained in the field and brought back to a laboratory for study and analysis."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "575",
            "name": "image collections",
            "scope": "Visible representations of objects or earth properties produced by cameras, spectral instruments, or as graphical representations of measurements."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2046",
            "name": "image mosaics",
            "scope": "Composite images formed by overlapping existing images, typically arranged to achieve greater spatial coverage."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "981",
            "name": "remote sensing",
            "scope": "Acquiring information about a natural feature or phenomenon, such as the Earth's surface, without actually being in contact with it. USGS remote sensing is usually carried out with airborne or spaceborne sensors or cameras."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1001",
            "name": "river reaches",
            "scope": "Continuous parts of streams between two specified points."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1002",
            "name": "river systems",
            "scope": "Long water courses including main streams and tributaries."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "1172",
            "name": "time series datasets",
            "scope": "Digital information describing observations taken at specified time intervals.  The time interval may be regular or variable; the type of observed phenomena and the location are typically constant."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "006",
            "name": "elevation",
            "scope": "Height above or below sea level, for example altitude, bathymetry, digital elevation models, slope, derived products, DEMs, TINs"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "012",
            "name": "inlandWaters",
            "scope": "Inland water features, drainage systems and characteristics, for example rivers and glaciers, salt lakes, water utilization plans, dams, currents, floods and flood hazards, water quality, hydrographic charts, watersheds, wetlands, hydrography"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "707",
            "name": "geographic information systems (GIS)",
            "scope": "geographic subdiscipline that employs computer systems to manage, analyze, and display spatial information."
        },
        {
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            "code": "165",
            "name": "river bank",
            "scope": "the land adjacent to a river."
        },
        {
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            "code": "167",
            "name": "river channel",
            "scope": "the area between the banks of a river, where flow is generally confined except during flood stage."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "314",
            "name": "sediment deposition",
            "scope": "the effects of deposition on natural sedimentary environments."
        }
    ],
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    "image": [
        {
            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/67102a7ad34edd269209626c?name=Elwha_margins_and_braids_overview.png&allowOpen=true",
            "description": "Sample map of Elwha River margins and braids overlying 2013 NAIP imagery."
        }
    ],
    "fan": []
}