Chapter A method based on beach profile analysis for shoreline identification

• Main Author: Casarosa, Nicola (auth)
• Other Authors: Luppichini, Marco (auth), Bini, Monica (auth), BERTON, ANDREA (auth), MERLINO, SILVIA (auth), Paterni, Marco (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2022
• Series: Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques 1
• Subjects: The environment; Coastal erosion; Shoreline Identifier; Methodology
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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.