Assessment of coastal vulnerability to physical and anthropic processes is a crucial step in coastal risk management, especially in climate change scenarios characterized by sea level rise and increasing human pressure. The application of geomorphological-based indices is a consolidated approach to estimate the degree of vulnerability to erosion processes of low-relief coasts at a regional/wide scale. Such a method is based on the combination of physical variables such as shoreline changes, dune and beach geometry, vegetation, and coastal infrastructures, which are statistically or arbitrarily ranked to extract a vulnerability classification. Recent advances in the availability of UAV platforms with higher performance in terms of flight duration, sensor availability, and mapping resolution provide a unique opportunity for a comparison between high-resolution DEMs and the results that can be obtained from the application of a Coastal Index. In this study, short- and medium-term comparison (i.e. about ten years) of high-resolution DEMs (derived by LiDAR) was performed in one of the sectors of the Ionian coastal belt, providing new insights about the geomorphological evolution of a highly vulnerable sector along a retreating coast. Such a comparison was tested along a sector of the coastal areas of the Basilicata region, southern Italy, that includes the Agri River mouth. The study area is featured by a strong human impact and environmental factors that have promoted in the last years the occurrence of remarkable shoreline retreat and coastal erosion.
University of Bari, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3414-7321
Basilicata University, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-1077-4862
ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-4328-1167
CNR – Institute of Heritage Science, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-5930-491X
CNR – Institute of Heritage Science, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3394-3705
Chapter Title
A multiscale analysis of the morphological setting along the susceptible coastal area of the Agri river (southern Italy)
Authors
Angela Rizzo, Giuseppe Corrado, Gianluigi Di Paola, Antonio Minervino Amodio, Dario Gioia
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0556-6.70
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Tenth International Symposium Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques
Book Subtitle
Livorno (Italy) 11th-13th June 2024
Editors
Laura Bonora, Marcantonio Catelani, Matteo De Vincenzi, Giorgio Matteucci
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Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0556-6
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979-12-215-0556-6
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0557-3
Series Title
Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques
Series E-ISSN
2975-0288