A simple data transformation technique for pre-processing survey data at embayed beaches

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-68

  Harley, Mitchell D ^a   Turner, Ian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beach surveys; Data gridding; Embayed beaches; Interpolation methods; Logarithmic spiral

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; INTERPOLATION; OCEAN ENGINEERING;

CARTESIAN COORDINATE SYSTEM; LOG-SPIRAL FUNCTION;

BEACHES;

BEACHES; DATA TRANSFER; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; INTERPOLATION; OCEAN ENGINEERING;

BEACH; DATA PROCESSING; INTERPOLATION; SURVEY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 36248937178     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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