Coastal changes in the Sendai area from the impact of the 2011 Tōhoku-oki tsunami: Interpretations of time series satellite images, helicopter-borne video footage and field observations

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 282, Issue , 2012, Pages 151-174

  Tappin, David R ^a   Evans, Hannah M ^a   Jordan, Colm J ^a   Richmond, Bruce ^b   Sugawara, Daisuke ^c   Goto, Kazuhisa ^c,d  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coastal change; Japan; Satellite imagery; Tsunami; Tsunami walls; Video

Indexed keywords

BACKFLOW; COASTAL CHANGE; COASTAL DEFENCE; COASTAL DUNE; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; JAPAN; LYING AREA; SATELLITE IMAGES; SEDIMENTARY PROCESS; SEVERE EROSION; SHEETFLOWS; TSUNAMI WAVES; VIDEO; VIDEO FOOTAGE;

BEACHES; COASTAL ZONES; EMBANKMENTS; EROSION; HELICOPTERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; WATER LEVELS;

TSUNAMIS;

BEACH EROSION; COASTAL PROTECTION; COASTAL ZONE; EMBANKMENT; INFLOW; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA WALL; SHEET FLOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TSUNAMI EVENT; WATER LEVEL;

HONSHU; JAPAN; MIYAGI; SENDAI; TOHOKU;

EID: 84870466378     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.09.011     Document Type: Article

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