California Coastal Records Project

A typical image from the project, which gave rise to the "Streisand effect"

The California Coastal Records Project, founded in 2002,[1] documents the California coastline with aerial photos taken from a helicopter flying parallel to the shore. Their webpage provides access to these images. One photo was taken every 500 feet.[2][3] Each photo showed a few hundred yards of the coastline, with frames overlapping.[4] The entire California coast is included, except sections of Vandenberg Air Force Base[5] (although some historical photos are included from an earlier survey in 1989). Most of the coast has been photographed several times, and the website has an interface for comparing photos taken during different years.

The project was an expansion of a 1997 effort to document the environmental degradation at San Simeon Point, California.[6]

Kenneth and Gabrielle Adelman were recipients of the 2004 Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography from the Sierra Club for their work on the project.[7][8] The photographs were exhibited in 2003 at the Center for Land Use Interpretation, in a nearly ten-hour-long simulation of what they saw as they flew the length of the coast.[4]

  1. ^ Wasserman, Jim (November 4, 2002). "California's Coast Has New Watchdog". The Day. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  2. ^ Cho, George (2005-05-02). Geographic Information Science: Mastering The Legal Issues. John Wiley & Sons. p. 46. ISBN 9780470850107. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  3. ^ Vlahides, John A.; Hershey, Alex (2007-04-01). Coastal California. Lonely Planet. p. 39. ISBN 9781741044713. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  4. ^ a b "The California Coastal Records Project". The Center for Land Use Interpretation. Spring 2003. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  5. ^ California coast & ocean. State Coastal Conservancy in association with the Romberg Tiburon Centers, San Francisco State University. 2007. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  6. ^ "California Coastal Records Project". Atlas Obscura. 7 March 2013. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
  7. ^ "Coastal guardians receive Sierra Club national awards". Ventana Chapter of the Sierra Club. November 2004. Archived from the original on August 12, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  8. ^ "Sierra Club 2004 National Awards". Archived from the original on November 29, 2008. Retrieved May 20, 2013.