Video-monitoring can be exploited as a valuable tool to acquire continuous, high-quality information on the evolution of beach morphology at a low cost and, on such basis, perform beach resilience analyses. This manuscript presents preliminary results of an ongoing, long-term monitoring programme of five sandy Italian beaches along the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian sea. The project aims at analyzing nearshore morphologic variabilities on a time period of several years, to link them to resilience indicators. The observations indicate that most of the beach width variations can be linked to discrete variations of sandbar systems, and most of all to an offshore migration and decay of the outermost bars. Further, the largest net shoreline displacements across the observation period are experienced by beaches with a clear NOM (Net Offshore Migration)-type evolution of the seabed.

Monitoring for Coastal Resilience: Preliminary Data from Five Italian Sandy Beaches / Parlagreco, Luca; Melito, Lorenzo; Devoti, Saverio; Perugini, Eleonora; Soldini, Luciano; Zitti, Gianluca; Brocchini, Maurizio. - In: SENSORS. - ISSN 1424-8220. - ELETTRONICO. - 19:8(2019).

Monitoring for Coastal Resilience: Preliminary Data from Five Italian Sandy Beaches

Lorenzo Melito;Eleonora Perugini;Luciano Soldini;Gianluca Zitti;Maurizio Brocchini
2019-01-01

Abstract

Video-monitoring can be exploited as a valuable tool to acquire continuous, high-quality information on the evolution of beach morphology at a low cost and, on such basis, perform beach resilience analyses. This manuscript presents preliminary results of an ongoing, long-term monitoring programme of five sandy Italian beaches along the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian sea. The project aims at analyzing nearshore morphologic variabilities on a time period of several years, to link them to resilience indicators. The observations indicate that most of the beach width variations can be linked to discrete variations of sandbar systems, and most of all to an offshore migration and decay of the outermost bars. Further, the largest net shoreline displacements across the observation period are experienced by beaches with a clear NOM (Net Offshore Migration)-type evolution of the seabed.
2019
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