Chapter Monitoring of the evolution of "barene" borders and the safeguard of the Venice Lagoon morphology: a contribution from the Coastal Change From Space Project results

• Main Author: D'Ascola, Filippo (auth)
• Other Authors: Cassese, Maria Luisa (auth), Jones, Martin (auth), Lugeri, Nicola (auth), Pesarino, Valeria (auth), Salmeri, Andrea (auth), Beck, Anne-Laure (auth), Taji, Mohamed Amine (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; Remote sensing; Shoreline; Coastal change; Monitoring
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This research proposes the acquisition of a time series from optical satellites to observe changes in the Venice lagoon, an ecosystem which is very challenging to monitor by means of in situ survey activities, let alone using remote sensing techniques, given the presence of land and sandbars (vegetated intertidal areas). The work describes the specific validation process performed by ISPRA on the results obtained as applied on some target sites of the Venice Lagoon, both natural and partially artificial islands, using fully artificial islands as reference.