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Coastal Erosion Identification and Monitoring in the Patras Gulf (Greece) Using Multi-Discipline Approaches.
| Title: | Coastal Erosion Identification and Monitoring in the Patras Gulf (Greece) Using Multi-Discipline Approaches. |
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| Authors: | Depountis, Nikolaos, Apostolopoulos, Dionysios, Boumpoulis, Vasileios, Christodoulou, Dimitris, Dimas, Athanassios, Fakiris, Elias, Leftheriotis, Georgios, Menegatos, Alexandros, Nikolakopoulos, Konstantinos, Papatheodorou, George, Sabatakakis, Nikolaos |
| Source: | Journal of Marine Science & Engineering; Mar2023, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p654, 25p |
| Abstract: | The primary objective of this research is to demonstrate advanced surveying methods and techniques for coastal erosion identification and monitoring in a densely human-populated coastline, the southern coastline of the Gulf of Patras (Greece), which diachronically suffers erosion problems expected to become worse in the forthcoming years due to climate change and human intervention. Its importance lies in the fact that it presents a robust methodology on how all modern scientific knowledge and techniques should be used in coastal erosion problems. The presented methods include the use of satellite and aerial photo imaging, shallow seabed bathymetry and morphology, sediment sampling, geotechnical investigations, as well as hydrodynamic modelling. The results are extensively analyzed in terms of their importance in coastal erosion studies and are cross-validated to define those areas most vulnerable to erosion. Towards this scope, the seabed erosion rate produced by hydrodynamic modelling is compared with the coastal vulnerability index (CVI) calculations performed in the examined area to identify which coastal zones are under a regime of intensive erosion. The results between the CVI and the seabed erosion rate appear to coincide in terms of the erosion potential, especially in zones where the vulnerability regime has been calculated as being high or very high, with the P. oceanica meadows playing an important role in reducing erosion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | COAST changes, EROSION, SCIENTIFIC knowledge, COASTS, SEDIMENT sampling, OCEAN bottom |
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| ISSN: | 20771312 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/jmse11030654 |
| Database: | Complementary Index |
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