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Juan Víctor Molner, Rebeca Pérez-González and Juan M. Soria
Beaches, as ecosystems of high ecosocial and biodiversity importance, are threatened by human activities such as city development and port construction. This study used satellite imagery (Landsat 5, Landsat 8, and Sentinel-2) to detect a significant redu...
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Salvatore Savastano, Paula Gomes da Silva, Jara Martínez Sánchez, Arnau Garcia Tort, Andres Payo, Mark E. Pattle, Albert Garcia-Mondéjar, Yeray Castillo and Xavier Monteys
Coasts are continually changing and remote sensing from satellites has the potential to both map and monitor coastal change at multiple scales. Unlike optical technology, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is uninfluenced by darkness, clouds, and rain, poten...
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Miquel Mir-Gual, Guillem X. Pons, Irene Delgado-Fernández and Thomas A. G. Smyth
Blowouts are integral features of coastal dune fields. Their presence enhances both geomorphological and ecological diversity and enables the movement of sand by wind. Their role as a ?transport corridor? may be, however, considered negative from a coast...
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Jessica D. DeWitt and Francis X. Ashland
South Manitou Island, part of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Lake Michigan, is a post-glacial lacustrine landscape with substantial geomorphic changes including landslides, shoreline and bluff retreat, and sand dune movement. These ch...
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Carmelo Maximiliano-Cordova, Rodolfo Silva, Edgar Mendoza, Valeria Chávez, M. Luisa Martínez and Rusty A. Feagin
Coastal dune restoration projects are increasingly seen as a means of protecting the coast against storms, especially with the use of natural (plants), artificial (geotextile tube cores) and hybrid (plants and geotextile tube) elements. As geotextile tub...
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Mahad Abdullahi Hussein, Mohammed Yusuf Ali and Hassan Ali Hussein
Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) was conducted to delineate groundwater potential zones in villages located in the Galhareri district of the Galgaduud region, central Somalia. A total of four ERT profiles were examined using the gradient configura...
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Feng Han, Chengxiang Wang, Zhibo Liu, Liangying Li and Wenhua Yin
After the construction of desert highway, the physiognomy changes caused by surface wind erosion and accumulation not only seriously threaten the stability of road structure, but also have a tremendous impact on the safety of the highway operation and th...
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Anna Kroon, Matthieu de Schipper, Sierd de Vries and Stefan Aarninkhof
Sandy nourishments can provide additional sediment to the coastal system to maintain its recreational or safety function under rising sea levels. These nourishments can be implemented at sandy beach systems, but can also be used to reinforce gray coastal...
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Zoran Kilibarda and Vesna Kilibarda
From 18 January 2013 (175.16 m a.s.l.) to 8 September 2020 (177.82 m a.s.l.), Lake Michigan experienced its fastest and highest rise (2.67 m) since 1860, when instrumental measurements began. Extensive foredunes developed since the last high lake levels ...
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Niki Evelpidou, Alexandros Petropoulos, Anna Karkani and Giannis Saitis
Coastal lagoons and dunes are of great ecological importance, not only for providing habitats for rare flora and fauna, but also for protecting coastal areas from rising sea levels and storms, etc. Even though these features are unique for sustainable de...
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