Measuring Historical Coastal Change using GIS and the Change Polygon Approach

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-15

  Smith, Martyn J ^a   Cromley, Robert G ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; BASELINE METHODS; CHANGE-OVER TIME; COASTAL CHANGE; MEASUREMENTS OF; PARAMETER CHANGES; POLYGON APPROACH; SPATIAL DIFFERENCES;

GEOMETRY;

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE; GIS; SHORELINE; TRANSECT;

EID: 84863076481     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2011.01292.x     Document Type: Article

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