Survey Techniques

The survey programme includes measurement of a wide range of coastal process drivers and responses.

Survey Programme

Land Based Topographic Surveys

• RTK GPS

• Control network

• Baseline beach surveys

• Beach profiles

• Post-storm beach surveys

• Beach management plan sites

Airborne Remote Sensing Topographic Surveys

• Digital Aerial Photos

• LIDAR surveys of cliffs and saltmarsh systems

• Habitat Mapping

Bathymetric Surveys of the Nearshore Sub-tidal Zone

• The Historic Approach and Need for Data

• Bathymetric Survey Techniques

Waves and Tidal Measurement

• Wave measurement at nearshore buoys

• Tidal Measurement