Coastal erosion hazard and vulnerability assessment for southern coastal Tamil Nadu of India by using remote sensing and GIS

Natural Hazards

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1295-1314

  Sheik Mujabar, P ^a   Chandrasekar, N ^b  

^a NATIONAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b MANONMANIAM SUNDARANAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coastal zone management; Sea level rise; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL EROSION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; GIS; GLOBAL WARMING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STORM SURGE; VULNERABILITY;

INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 84888642835     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9962-x     Document Type: Article

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