Author(s)

I.J. Davenport, D.C. Mason, G.J. Robinson, R.A. Flatbed, M. Amin^, J.A. Smith & C. Gurney

Abstract

The conclusions of a four year study into the use of remotely sensing imagery and hydrodynamic sea height modelling to generate Digital Elevation Models (OEMs) of the intertidal zone, using the waterline method are presented. This technique involves determining the land-sea boundary in a number of images, and heighting it using a hydrodynamic tide-surge model. The quasi-contours derived are then interpolated to generate a DEM of the intertidal zone. Under the UK Natural Environment Research Council Land-Ocean Interaction Study this technique has been applied to a 100km stretch of the UK coa

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