Lake Borgne, Louisiana
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POINT(-89.7477622137 30.0302709157)
POINT(-89.7345936732 30.0371168395)
Capture date:
June 11, 2010
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Erin Sharkey
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Stewart Long
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Comments
Rectifying shifting waterways
Alex Kolker from LUMCON (Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium) mentioned that although waterways in marshland may shift quite rapidly, the center of a 3-way intersection is quite stable, as a rule. That kind of rule of thumb is quite useful for this kind of map.