California Coastal Records Project#Kenneth and Gabrielle Adelman
{{short description|Aerial photographic project of the Californian coastline}}
The California Coastal Records Project, founded in 2002,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Q_kgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=a3QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1483,787408&dq=california-coastal-records+-streisand&hl=en|title=California's Coast Has New Watchdog|last=Wasserman|first=Jim|date=November 4, 2002|work=The Day|accessdate=6 May 2012}} 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.{{cite book|last=Cho|first=George|title=Geographic Information Science: Mastering The Legal Issues|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-nGK3Lr-DqQC&pg=PA46|accessdate=6 May 2012|date=2005-05-02|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9780470850107|page=46}}{{cite book|last1=Vlahides|first1=John A.|last2=Hershey|first2=Alex|title=Coastal California|url=https://archive.org/details/coastalcaliforni00vlah |url-access=registration|accessdate=6 May 2012|date=2007-04-01|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=9781741044713|page=[https://archive.org/details/coastalcaliforni00vlah/page/39 39]}} Each photo showed a few hundred yards of the coastline, with frames overlapping.{{Cite web |date=Spring 2003 |title=The California Coastal Records Project |url=https://clui.org/newsletter/spring-2003/california-coastal-records-project |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=The Center for Land Use Interpretation}} The entire California coast is included, except sections of Vandenberg Air Force Base{{cite book|title=California coast & ocean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HjUaAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=6 May 2012|year=2007|publisher=State Coastal Conservancy in association with the Romberg Tiburon Centers, San Francisco State University}} (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.{{Cite web |date=7 March 2013 |title=California Coastal Records Project |url=http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/california-coastal-records-project |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=Atlas Obscura |language=en}}
Kenneth and Gabrielle Adelman
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.{{Cite web |title= Coastal guardians receive Sierra Club national awards |url= http://ventana.sierraclub.org/conservation/local/coastal_guardians.shtml |publisher= Ventana Chapter of the Sierra Club |date= November 2004 |accessdate= May 20, 2013 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20130812160103/http://ventana.sierraclub.org/conservation/local/coastal_guardians.shtml |archivedate= August 12, 2013 }}{{Cite web |url= http://www.sierraclub.org/awards/2004winners/ |title= Sierra Club 2004 National Awards |accessdate= May 20, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081129133216/http://www.sierraclub.org/awards/2004winners/ |archive-date= November 29, 2008 |url-status= dead }} 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.
Streisand effect
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Kenneth Adelman, the creator of the project, was sued in 2003 by Barbra Streisand, who claimed that he had infringed upon her privacy by displaying a photograph of her Malibu home. The project countersued under the SLAPP provisions of California law and prevailed in court.{{cite book|last=Statsky|first=William P.|title=Torts: Personal Injury Litigation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wrb3Se3rTTYC&pg=PA519|accessdate=6 May 2012|date=2010-08-26|publisher=Cengage Learning|isbn=9781401879624|page=519}}[http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2003/Barbra-Streisand-Coastal3dec03.htm Streisand’s Lawsuit to Silence Coastal Website Dismissed]{{cite book|last1=Tugendhat|first1=Michael|last2=Christie|first2=Iain|title=The Law of Privacy and the Media: Main Work and Second Cumulative Supplement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EcDzAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=6 May 2012|date=2006-04-13|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199283446|page=28}}{{NoteTag|The case was Streisand v. Adelman et al., in California Superior Court; Case SC077257''}} The lawsuit drew additional public attention to Streisand's home, giving name to the Streisand effect: the phenomenon in which attempting to hide or censor information instead draws greater attention to the information.
Uses
Photos from this project have been used in scientific research, by news media, and by government agencies,{{Cite web |last=Network |first=Susan Jordan for the California Coastal Protection |date=2013-10-08 |title=Landmark California Coastal Records Project Posts 17,600 New Aerial Photos {{!}} Homes & Lifestyle |url=http://www.noozhawk.com/california_coastal_records_project_posts_17600_new_photos_20131008/ |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=Noozhawk |language=en-US}} as well as by individuals for their own enjoyment.
- 150 photos included in The California Coast from the Air (2014) by Gary Griggs and Deepika Shrestha Ross.
- Photos of Fort Funston near San Francisco were used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to test a method of calculating the amount of coastal erosion.{{Cite web |title=New Maps from Old Photos: Measuring Coastal Erosion in California |url=https://www.usgs.gov/programs/cmhrp/news/new-maps-old-photos-measuring-coastal-erosion-california |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=U.S. Geological Survey |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Warrick |first=Jonathan A. |last2=Ritchie |first2=Andrew C. |last3=Adelman |first3=Gabrielle |last4=Adelman |first4=Kenneth |last5=Limber |first5=Patrick W. |date=January 2017 |title=New Techniques to Measure Cliff Change from Historical Oblique Aerial Photographs and Structure-from-Motion Photogrammetry |url=https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-coastal-research/volume-33/issue-1/JCOASTRES-D-16-00095.1/New-Techniques-to-Measure-Cliff-Change-from-Historical-Oblique-Aerial/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-16-00095.1.full |journal=Journal of Coastal Research |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=39–55 |doi=10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-16-00095.1 |issn=0749-0208}}
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External links
- [http://www.californiacoastline.org/ California Coastal Records Project]
Category:Geography of California