This project's objective was to develop a coastal imagery-based response tool that could be implemented on the North Slope of Alaska. The North Slope is a region of both onshore and offshore oil development and stretches 6,000 km (4,000 mi) from Cape Lisburne to the Canadian border. The shoreline is entirely permafrost and, as a result, includes unique coastal processes and habitats. The provision of georeferenced, high resolution imagery provides the Federal Onscene Coordinator and Incident Command with the highest resolution imagery via an online delivery system. They consolidated existing georeferenced video and photographic imagery of the North Slope shoreline and geotagged the oblique imagery to high resolution satellite and orthrophoto imagery. The imagery is accessible online through a web portal (e.g., Shorezone and ERMA). The contractor used open-source, high-resolution delivery systems for HD video (e.g., You Tube) and high-resolution photography (e.g., Flickr) linked to an open-source GIS (e.g., ArcGIS on-line).
The final report was received on March 14, 2014. BSEE accepted the final report for the project. Georeferenced video and photographic imagery is accessible via http://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/shorezone/, and linked to Arctic ERMA.