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This book is a landmark study into the variable character of the South Australian coast and its long-term evolution.

Shorelines --- Coasts --- Coastal landforms --- Coastal zones --- Coastlines --- Landforms --- Seashore --- Lake shorelines --- Lakes --- Reservoirs --- Shore-lines --- Physical geography --- Bodies of water --- coast of kangaroo island --- yorke peninsula coastline --- coast of south australia --- northern spencer gulf coast --- golf coast of eyre peninsula --- gulf st vincent tidal coastline --- limestone coast --- kangaroo island --- river murray estuary --- bight coast --- samphire coast --- west coast of eyre peninsula --- northern gulf st vincent tidal coastline --- coastal landscapes of south australia --- fleurieu peninsula coast --- coorong coastal plain --- coast of metropolitan adelaide --- Dune --- Eolianite --- Sand --- Sea level --- Year

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Coastal environments are dynamic ecosystems, where erosion is influenced by meteorological/climatic, geological, biological, and anthropic factors. Erosion has worrying effects on the environment, infrastructure, lifelines, and buildings. Furthermore, climate change is exacerbating an already fragile situation. We are witnessing a high-risk situation and are convinced that this is the most appropriate time to focus on state-of-the-art remote sensing techniques for shoreline monitoring. The improvements in the spatial and spectral resolution of current and next generation satellite-based sensors and the significant progress in the spatial data processing identify remote sensing techniques that increase our knowledge of territory and coastline. This Special Issue aims to highlight an overview of all multiscale remote sensing techniques (e.g., high resolution images, photogrammetry, SAR, etc.) and a whole array of methods and techniques that process, analyse, and discuss multitemporal remotely sensed data. Thank you to all of our contributors and authors for their interesting and illuminating studies. Since this topic is complex and dynamic, we hope to develop this research with future works to form more cutting-edge studies.

DGPS measurements --- video camera observation --- shoreline position --- beach survey --- Sentinel-2 --- Remote Sensing --- habitat mapping --- mangroves --- coral reefs --- climate change --- vulnerable habitats --- side-scan sonar --- swath bathymetry --- habitat monitoring --- hurricane Sandy --- hurricane Joaquin --- shoreline detection --- remote sensing --- WorldView-2 --- Abruzzo --- multispectral classification --- shoreline --- coastline --- satellite images --- synthetic aperture radar (SAR) --- Sentinel-1 --- shoreline extraction --- coastline extraction --- active connection matrix (ACM) --- J-Net Dynamic --- edge detection --- canny edge detector --- coastline mapping --- geomatics --- SfM photogrammetry --- network RTK --- sea level rise --- coastlines --- 2100 --- storm surges --- heritage sites --- Pyrgi --- Mediterranean --- UAV --- DSM --- n/a

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In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious challenges to all aspects of coastal existence-chiefly economic, residential, and environmental-as well as to the cartographic definition and mapping of coasts. It is this facet of coastal life that Mark Monmonier tackles in Coast Lines. Setting sail on a journey across shifting landscapes, cartographic technology, and climate change, Monmonier reveals that coastlines are as much a set of ideas, assumptions, and societal beliefs as they are solid black lines on maps. Whether for sailing charts or property maps, Monmonier shows, coastlines challenge mapmakers to capture on paper a highly irregular land-water boundary perturbed by tides and storms and complicated by rocks, wrecks, and shoals. Coast Lines is peppered with captivating anecdotes about the frustrating effort to expunge fictitious islands from nautical charts, the tricky measurement of a coastline's length, and the contentious notions of beachfront property and public access. Combing maritime history and the history of technology, Coast Lines charts the historical progression from offshore sketches to satellite images and explores the societal impact of coastal cartography on everything from global warming to homeland security. Returning to the form of his celebrated Air Apparent, Monmonier ably renders the topic of coastal cartography accessible to both general readers and historians of science, technology, and maritime studies. In the post-Katrina era, when the map of entire regions can be redrawn by a single natural event, the issues he raises are more important than ever.

Coastal mapping. --- Environmental monitoring. --- Biomonitoring (Ecology) --- Ecological monitoring --- Environmental quality --- Monitoring, Environmental --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Pollution --- Charting, Coastal --- Coast mapping --- Coastal charting --- Coastal zone mapping --- Coastline mapping --- Coasts --- Cartography --- Measurement --- Monitoring --- Charting --- Mapping --- mapmaking, cartography, geography, climate change, global warming, environment, nature, environmentalism, sea levels, flooding, natural disaster, extreme weather, malaysia, canals, venice, coasts, florida, california, coastline, technology, science, nonfiction, nautical charts, public access, beachfront property, tides, storms, shipwreck, shoals, satellite images, homeland security, maritime, environmental monitoring, coastal mapping.

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The book presents a collection of papers focused on recent progress in key areas of photogrammetry for environmental research. Applications oriented to the understanding of natural phenomena and quantitative processes using dataset from photogrammetry (from satellite to unmanned aerial vehicle images) and terrestrial laser scanning, also by a diachronic approach, are reported. The book covers topics of interest of many disciplines from geography, geomorphology, engineering geology, geotechnology, including landscape description and coastal studies. Mains issues faced by the book are related to applications on coastal monitoring, using multitemporal aerial images, and investigations on geomorphological hazard by the joint use of proximal photogrammetry, terrestrial and aerial laser scanning aimed to the reconstruction of detailed surface topography and successive 2D/3D numerical simulations for rock slope stability analyses. Results reported in the book bring into evidence the fundamental role of multitemporal surveys and reliable reconstruction of morphologies from photogrammetry and laser scanning as support to environmental researches.

damage --- n/a --- plain area --- UAS --- photogrammetry --- geological hazard --- ZY3-02 --- UAV --- Remote sensing --- geohazards --- declassified satellite imagery --- TLS --- rock slope stability --- field work --- Pleiades --- georelief --- landslide mapping --- talus cones --- coastline --- unmanned aerial vehicle --- SfM photogrammetry --- beach monitoring --- LiDAR --- poplar plantation --- air photos --- canopy height --- remote sensing --- monitoring --- torrential rainfall --- SfM-MVS --- rockfall runout --- rockfall hazard --- SfM --- Lefkada Island --- slope stability --- coastal observatory

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Monitoring changes in the intertidal zone of rocky shores has never been more critical. This sensitive habitat at the interface of land and ocean may well be the marine equivalent of the canary in a coal mine as we advance into an era of global climate change. This handbook describes effective methods and procedures for monitoring the ecological and environmental status of these areas. Written by three collaborating authors with extensive field experience, it provides critical discussions and evaluation of the various sampling techniques and field procedures for studies of intertidal macroinvertebrates, seaweeds, and seagrasses. Rather than prescribing standard protocols or procedures, the authors break down the decision-making process into various elements so investigators can become aware of the advantages and disadvantages of choosing a particular method or approach. Chapters discuss topics such as site selection, field sampling layouts and designs, selection of sampling units, nondestructive and destructive methods of quantifying abundance, and methods for measuring age, growth rates, size, structure, and reproductive condition.

Intertidal ecology --- Environmental monitoring --- Research --- Methodology. --- brackish. --- climate change. --- coastline. --- earth sciences. --- ecology. --- environment. --- environmentalism. --- field sampling layouts. --- fieldwork. --- global warming. --- growth rates. --- intertidal macroinvertebrates. --- intertidal zone. --- intertidal. --- macroinvertebrates. --- marine environment. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- ocean health. --- ocean plants. --- ocean. --- oceanography. --- quantifying abundance. --- reproductive condition. --- sampling units. --- science. --- seagrasses. --- seaweeds. --- shoreline. --- site selection. --- water plants.