Shoreline Change from Optical and Sar Satellite Imagery at Macro-Tidal Estuarine, Cliffed Open-Coast and Gravel Pocket-Beach Environments

Paz-Delgado, Maria Victoria; Payo, Andres; Gómez-Pazo, Alejandro; Beck, Anne-Laure; Savastano, Salvatore. 2022 Shoreline Change from Optical and Sar Satellite Imagery at Macro-Tidal Estuarine, Cliffed Open-Coast and Gravel Pocket-Beach Environments. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10 (5), 561. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10050561

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Abstract/Summary

Coasts are continually changing and remote sensing from satellite has the potential to both map and monitor coastal change at multiple scales. This study aims to assess the application of shorelines extracted from Multi-Spectral Imagery (MSI) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) from publicly available satellite imagery to map and capture sub-annual to inter-annual shoreline variability. This is assessed at three macro-tidal study sites along the coastline of England, United Kingdom (UK): estuarine, soft cliff environment, and gravel pocket-beach. We have assessed the accuracy of MSI-derived lines against ground truth datum tideline data and found that the satellite derived lines have the tendency to be lower (seaward) on the Digital Elevation Model than the datum-tideline. We have also compared the metric of change derived from SAR lines differentiating between ascending and descending orbits. The spatial and temporal characteristics extracted from SAR lines via Principal Component Analysis suggested that beach rotation is captured within the SAR dataset for descending orbits but not for the ascending ones in our study area. The present study contributes to our understanding of a poorly known aspect of using coastlines derived from publicly available MSI and SAR satellite missions. It outlines a quantitative approach to assess their mapping accuracy with a new non-foreshore method. This allows the assessment of variability on the metrics of change using the Open Digital Shoreline Analysis System (ODSAS) method and to extract complex spatial and temporal information using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) that is transferable to coastline evolution assessments worldwide.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10050561
ISSN:	2077-1312
Date made live:	04 May 2022 09:22 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532582

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10050561

ISSN:

2077-1312

Date made live:

04 May 2022 09:22 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/532582