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Digital Earth Africa Coastlines

Africa's long and dynamic coastline is subject to a wide range of pressures, including extreme weather and climate, sea level rise and human development. Understanding how the coastline responds to these pressures is crucial to managing this region, from social, environmental and economic perspectives. The Digital Earth Africa Coastlines (provisional) is a continental dataset that includes annual shorelines and rates of coastal change along the entire African coastline from 2000 to the present.

Source details

Licence: DE Africa makes this data available under the Creative Commons Attribute 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

Evidence quality: 17

Listed in aws-odr public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

Evidence

• arn:aws:s3:::deafrica-services/coastlines, arn:aws:s3:::deafrica-services-inventory, arn:aws:sns:af-south-1:543785577597:deafrica-services-topic
• https://registry.opendata.aws/deafrica-coastlines/

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