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Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure


Author: Xiaomei Yang, Yuanzhi Zhang, Yijun Hou
Source: Directory of Open Access Books
Publisher: IntechOpen
ISBN: 9781789235463||9781789235470

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Sea level rise and coastal erosion had drawn an increasing awareness recently as the repercussion of increase of sea level and coastal erosion would reshape the earth's system and induce a tremendous loss in ecological or economics cost. Governments are dedicated to meliorate the occurrence of these phenomena, or else all creations on the earth will suffer from the catastrophe. Global warming is one of the crucial factors resulting in the increase of sea level and coastal erosion. Remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) technologies are thoroughly adopted and applied to monitor the dynamic change of the nature system, such as coastal land use and land cover, sea level rise, and coastal infrastructure.