SHORELINE EXTRACTION METHODS AND MEGACUSPS IDENTIFICATION FROM SENTINEL-2 IMAGES

Coastal regions play a crucial role due to their rich biodiversity and human recreational and economic uses. Monitoring the coastal environment is essential in the present framework of climate change and it typically involves the identification of various indicators, with the shoreline being the most prevalent. There are several definitions for this indicator, but we here refer to the instantaneous shoreline, automatically identified through satellite imagery or digitized by the operator as “ground truth” from orthomosaics.