Lead institution:
Center for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMA), Universidade do Algarve – Portugal
There is overwhelming evidence of chronic, ongoing erosion of sandy coasts worldwide, problem that will exacerbate in the future due to climate change, posing a risk to the perpetuation of important coastal ecosystem services.
Future resilience and adaptation capacity of sandy coasts in this context is a growing concern to coastal managers and local communities, calling for urgent measures and strategies.
Thus, understanding and monitoring coastal resilience is key to designing appropriate strategies to mitigate future climate impacts. Still, monitoring data are fragmented in time and space, while strategies that prioritise coastal adaptation are far from being a common practice.
To address these challenges, CREST explores and combines recent advances in two scientific fields: 1) remote sensing of coastal indicators from satellite imagery and 2) geomorphologic resilience assessment of coastal systems, into an automated process for monitoring the resilience of sandy coasts.
Start Date: 01/03/2023
End Date: 28/02/2027
Lead Contact: Susana Costas (scotero@ualg.pt)