The future of low‐lying reef islands has been the subject of international concern, scientific
debate, and media interest in the last decade. As a result of sea‐level rise, atoll islands are …

The world has a long record of shoreline and related erosion problems due to the impacts of
climate change/variability in sea level rise. This has made coastal systems and large inland …

Numerous coastal mapping techniques have been developed over the last twenty-seven
years (Stafford, 1971; Dolan et ah, 1978; Fisher and Simpson, 1979; Leatherman, 1983; …

Wotje Atoll is located at 9° 25′ N and 170° 04′ E within the Republic of the Marshall
Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. As on other atolls, the islands perched along the rim of …

This volume discusses the role of humans in transforming the coastal landscape. The book
details the many ways beaches and dunes are eliminated, altered and replaced and the …

We report the damage caused by Amphan, a category five tropical cyclonic storm, to the
ecology and shoreline of the Sundarban mangrove ecosystem, located in India and …

A critical need exists among coastal researchers and policy-makers for a precise method to
obtain shoreline positions from historical maps and aerial photographs. A number of …

Coastal mapping, using various data capture and feature extraction techniques, has
furthered understanding of trends in shoreline evolution by allowing calculation of accurate …

Shoreline geometry remains one of the key parameters in the detection of coastal erosion
and deposition and the study of coastal morphodynamics. The Digital Shoreline Analysis …

Coastline evolution is a proxy of coastal erosion, defined as the wasting of land along the
shoreline due to a combination of natural and/or human causes. For countries with a sea …