USGS iCoast (Archive) - Did the Coast Change?
Welcome! USGS iCoast is a USGS crowdsourcing application created for you to help us better understand how coastlines change after extreme storms.
Help scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) annotate aerial photographs with keyword tags to identify changes to the coast after extreme storms like Hurricanes Ike and Sandy. We need your eyes to help us understand how our coastlines are changing from extreme storms.
Click the button below to Login or Register using Google.
Note: Any Google based account, including standard Gmail accounts or those managed by you or your organization, can be used to create an iCoast account.
(Examples: aperson@gmail.com, aperson@usgs.gov, aperson@university.edu)
This site now exists as a non-functional archive.
Thank you for your contribution
to this project. Since launch,
we have had over 2000
registered users who have
dedicated the equivalent of 500
working days to improve our
interpretations of storm
impacts to our nation’s coast.
You have completed over 65,000
classifications, providing over
600,000 tags describing changes
in 25,000 images. The results
of this experiment include a
research paper, public release
of the data, and numerous
presentations. We could not
have done this without you.
iCoast
was conceived as a research
project and we have completed
our objectives. Therefore, we
plan to say farewell to iCoast
in June 2020. This allows us to
develop new methods to engage a
broad community who is
interested in learning more
about how the coast changes and
contributing to research on
this topic.
This site now exists as a non-functional archive. Login, sign-up, and image classification functions have been disabled.
You can
continue to find coastal
imagery using the Oblique
Aerial Photography Viewer.
Help us classify the remaining 2,721 photos in the Hurricane Joaquin Project!
It takes an average of 2 minutes 9 seconds to classify one photo!
5,978 of 8,699 photos have been classified!
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