ABSTRACT 



This publication provides information about a Coastal Imagery Data 

 Bank being compiled by the Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERC) . 



The data bank will consist of a systematic index identifying avail- 

 able aerial photographs of the nation's coastal areas. Compilation is 

 scheduled for completion in fiscal year 1977. This interim report covers 

 information compiled through fiscal year 1972. Imagery for the index is 

 being compiled by the Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center [DMATC) 

 under support and direction of CERC. 



FOREWORD 



CERC is preparing this index for distribution to the Corps of Engineers 

 Divisions and Districts so that the Corps may continue to conduct its 

 planning, design, construction and management functions of the coastal 

 zone in the most effective manner. 



This report was prepared by Andre Szuwalski, Project Engineer, Eval- 

 uation Branch, under the general supervision of George M. Watts, Chief, 

 Engineering Development Division, and Dennis W. Berg, Chief, Evaluation 

 Branch. 



At the time of publication, the Director of the Coastal Engineering 

 Research Center was Lieutenant Colonel Don S. McCoy; the Technical Direc- 

 tor was Thomdike Saville, Jr. 



NOTE: Comments on this publication are invited. Discussion will be 

 published in the next issue of the CERC Bulletin. 



This report is published under authority of Public Law 166, 79th 

 Congress, approved July 31, 1945, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th 

 Congress, approved November 7, 1963. 



