The shoreline is one of the most important features on the Earth’s surface, representing a critical indicator of coastal evolution and vulnerability for any Coastal Geographic Information System. In this sense, a new methodological proposal for high accuracy shoreline mapping is outlined along the present work. Briefly, this methodology starts from a coastal elevation model (CEM) obtained by Li...

We evaluate regional differences in road recovery in Miyagi Prefecture following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. We divided Miyagi Prefecture into three areas, i.e., Inland, Northern Coastal, and Southern Coastal areas. According to the results of our study, we conclude that the recovery conditions of regional roads in different areas of Miyagi Prefecture following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake differ...

At present, there is no dedicated software platform for the coastal zone remote sensing information extraction. For the complexity of the coastal zone targets which contains shoreline, vegetation and coastal zone types and so on, users can not extract information automatically by computers, so users need operate extraction by comparing to interpreting marks and remote sense images frequently. I...

we measured the impacts of coastal modification on beach erosion and beach retreat conditions, selecting the miankaleh region as an example of a complex high-pressure free zone with high levels of engineering and tourism activity. nine sampling transects, stretching from the shoreline to a 10 meter depth, were defined and 36 sediment samples were collected from the sea bed at depths of 1, 3, 5,...

sustainable coastal fishing management includes different components and factors. one of the practical initiatives to achieve sustainability is to evaluate or measure different criteria of sustainability and measuring sustainability of each system needs its own indicators. this study aimed to investigate different criteria of sustainable coastal fishing management in beach seine cooperatives (b...

A distributed system for monitoring and forecasting of the marine environment is being developed in line with INSPIRE and GMES recommendations for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) architecture. This system, DISPRO, enables integration and distribution of multi-source data from satellites, aircrafts and in situ instruments, as well as results from numerical models. Geographic data and metadat...

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We address the problem of surveying of oceanic parameters using autonomous instrumented mobile platforms. As an example, we consider the problem of current mapping in coastal areas. We study the impact on survey efficiency of using a priori knowledge concerning the surveyed field for on-line guidance of the sensors, as an alternative to the classical approach of executing a predefined trajector...

Citation: Newell R, Canessa R and Sharma T (2017) Visualizing Our Options for Coastal Places: Exploring Realistic Immersive Geovisualizations as Tools for Inclusive Approaches to Coastal Planning and Management. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:290. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00290 Visualizing Our Options for Coastal Places: Exploring Realistic Immersive Geovisualizations as Tools for Inclusive Approaches to Co...