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t. REPORT NUMBER 



MR 76-2 



2. GOVT ACCESSION NO, 



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4. TITLE (and Subtttlt) 



AN ERTS-1 STUDY OF COASTAL FEATURES 

 ON THE NORTH CAROLINA COAST 



S. TYPE OF REPORT & PERIOD COVERED 



Miscellaneous Report 



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7. AUTHORfa; 



8. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERC*) 



George H. Miller 

 Dennis W. Berg 



9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center (CEREN-EV) 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060 



B31182 



11. CONTROLLING OFFICE NAME AND ADDRESS 



Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060 



12. REPORT DATE 



January 1976 



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UNCLASSIFIED 



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Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. 



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18. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 



19. KEY WORDS (Continue . 



Remote sensing 

 Coastal engineering 

 Morphological changes 

 Multispectral scanner 



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ERTS 



North Carolina coast 



Satellite imagery 



Sediment 



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Unenhanced imagery recorded by the multispectral scanner (MSS) of the 

 NASA Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS-1) was analyzed to determine 

 how satellite imagery may be applied to specific coastal engineering problems. 

 The study area is a segment of the North Carolina coast comprising Wrights- 

 ville Beach, Masonboro Inlet, Masonboro Beach, Caroiina"Beach Inlet, and 

 Carolina 'Beach, which are areas of ongoing research byTERC. Analysis was 

 supplemented by underf light imagery supplied by NASA and ground-truth data. 



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