Coastal erosion coupled with human-induced pressure has severely affected the coastal areas of the Mediterranean region. In this context, the Pisa coastal plain shows a long history of erosion, which started at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The work aims to provide a method and a software to extract the shoreline position. The algorithm is based on the variation of the topographic beach profile caused by the transition from water to sand. The algorithm is promoted by the release of a QGIS v3.x plugin uploaded on the official repository of the software.
University of Ferrara, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-0913-3825
University of Pisa, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-1482-2630
Clinical Physiology Institute CNR, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-8798-9469
Consorzio di Bonifica, Italy
CNR - ISMAR, The Institute of Marine Sciences, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-4537-2903
Clinical Physiology Institute CNR, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-9799-7059
Chapter Title
A method based on beach profile analysis for shoreline identification
Authors
Marco Luppichini, Monica Bini, Andrea Berton, Nicola Casarosa, Silvia Merlino, Marco Paterni
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0030-1.05
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2022
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© 2022 Author(s)
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Book Title
Ninth International Symposium “Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques”
Book Subtitle
Livorno (Italy) 14th-16th June 2022
Editors
Laura Bonora, Donatella Carboni, Matteo De Vincenzi, Giorgio Matteucci
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2022
Copyright Information
© 2022 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0030-1
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0030-1
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0031-8
Series Title
Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques
Series ISSN
2975-0423
Series E-ISSN
2975-0288