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Coastal Erosion Monitoring

Coastal erosion threatens infrastructure, ecosystems, and livelihoods on every inhabited continent, yet globally consistent, high-cadence monitoring remains elusive.

Category

Coastal Risk & Erosion

Format

PDF Report

Delivery

Digital download after purchase

Price

$39

Summary

Coastal erosion threatens infrastructure, ecosystems, and livelihoods on every inhabited continent, yet globally consistent, high-cadence monitoring remains elusive. This study presents a multi-temporal shoreline change analysis spanning eight geomorphologically diverse sites distributed across five Köppen–Geiger climate zones, using Sentinel-2 Level-2A imagery acquired between 2017 and 2024. Shoreline positions were extracted by computing the Modified Normalised Difference Water Index (MNDWI) from green and short-wave infrared bands, applying Otsu’s adaptive threshold, and performing sub-pixel contour interpolation at the land–water boundary. Tidal corrections were applied using the FES2014 ocean tide model coupled with locally calibrated beach-slope proxies to reduce the horizontal positional uncertainty introduced by tidal stage variation.

What the report covers

Coastal erosion threatens infrastructure, ecosystems, and livelihoods on every inhabited continent, yet globally consistent, high-cadence monitoring remains elusive.
This study presents a multi-temporal shoreline change analysis spanning eight geomorphologically diverse sites distributed across five Köppen–Geiger climate zones, using Sentinel-2 Level-2A imagery acquired between 2017 and 2024.
Shoreline positions were extracted by computing the Modified Normalised Difference Water Index (MNDWI) from green and short-wave infrared bands, applying Otsu’s adaptive threshold, and performing sub-pixel contour interpolation at the land–water boundary.

Why it matters

Shoreline change intelligence supports resilience planning, asset exposure assessment, and coastal risk prioritization.

Intended sectors and users

InsuranceCoastal resilienceGovernmentInfrastructure

Methodology framing

The report is framed around Sentinel-2, using the methods described in the source abstract and paper title.

Preview figures

Fig07 Change Maps preview from shoreline monitoring coastal erosion
Fig07 Change Maps preview from shoreline monitoring coastal erosion
Fig10 Risk Maps preview from shoreline monitoring coastal erosion
Fig10 Risk Maps preview from shoreline monitoring coastal erosion

Applications and use cases

Erosion monitoring
Risk mapping
Coastal change analysis

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