As part of the Coastal Change Consortium, our aim is to develop applications to detect and track coastal erosion and accretion to inform coastal management plans. We will do this through volumetric analysis of sediment transport as well as by analysing 25 years of ESA Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, and Sentinel-2 and NOAA Landsat optical data to quantify historical coastal change, developing our own methodologies to address these problems.
This research is being lead by Argans Ltd and is being carried out in collaboration with:
- BGS
- Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI)
- Environmental Hydaulic Institute Cantabria
- Italian National Institute of Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)
- Arctus, working with the University of Quebec, Rimouski (UQAR)
Eording cliffs and sea defences at West Bay, Dorset. © Lewis Clarke; licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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Sea floor: marine geoscience
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