Impact of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on beach morphology along the northern sendai coast

Coastal Engineering Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Udo, Keiko ^a   Sugawara, Daisuke ^a   Tanaka, Hitoshi ^a   Imai, Kentaro ^a   Mano, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

coastal forest; DEM; inundation depth; laser scanner; sediment transport

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; DEPOSITION; EROSION; FORESTRY; MORPHOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TSUNAMIS;

2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; COASTAL FOREST; EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS; EROSION AND DEPOSITION; INUNDATION DEPTH; LASER SCANNER; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ANATOMY; COASTS; DEPTH; EARTH MOVEMENT; EROSION; JAPAN; LASERS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; TRANSPORT;

EID: 84859373521     PISSN: 21664250     EISSN: 17936292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S057856341250009X     Document Type: Article

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