A5085348395- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Geological formations and processes
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications
- Global trade and economics
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Environmental and Sediment Control
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Maritime Navigation and Safety
- Aquatic and Environmental Studies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Marine animal studies overview
- Marine and Offshore Engineering Studies
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
Delft University of Technology
2016-2025
Deltares
2016-2025
University of Twente
2023
Coastal Orthopedics
2017-2019
Japan External Trade Organization
2009
Wolters Kluwer (Netherlands)
2003-2009
Coastal zones constitute one of the most heavily populated and developed land in world. Despite utility economic benefits that coasts provide, there is no reliable global-scale assessment historical shoreline change trends. Here, via use freely available optical satellite images captured since 1984, conjunction with sophisticated image interrogation analysis methods, we present a occurrence sandy beaches rates therein. Applying pixel-based supervised classification, found 31% world's...
Stive, M.J.F.; de Schipper, M.A.; Luijendijk, A.P.; Aarninkhof, S.G.J.; van Gelder-Maas, C.; Thiel Vries, J.S.M.; S.; Henriquez, M.; Marx, S., and Ranasinghe, R., 2013. A new alternative to saving our beaches from local sea-level rise: the sand engine.A boldly innovative soft engineering intervention, comprising an unprecedented 21.5 Mm3 nourishment known as Sand Engine, has recently been implemented in Netherlands. The Engine is a pilot project test efficacy of mega-nourishments counter...
Marine plastic pollution poses a potential threat to the ecosystem, but sources and their magnitudes remain largely unclear. Existing bottom-up emission inventories vary among studies for two three orders of (OMs). Here, we adopt top-down approach that uses observed dataset sea surface concentrations an ensemble ocean transport models reduce uncertainty global discharge. The optimal estimation emissions in this study varies about 1.5 OMs: 0.70 (0.13-3.8 as 95% confidence interval) million...
Abstract Satellite remote sensing is becoming a widely used monitoring technique in coastal sciences. Yet, no benchmarking studies exist that compare the performance of popular satellite-derived shoreline mapping algorithms against standardized sets inputs and validation data. Here we present new framework to evaluate accuracy change observations extracted from publicly available satellite imagery (Landsat Sentinel-2). Accuracy precision five established are evaluated at four sandy beaches...
Abstract Coastal ecosystems provide vital services, but human disturbance causes massive losses. Remaining are squeezed between rising seas and infrastructure development. While shoreline retreat is intensively studied, coastal congestion through remains unquantified. Here we analyse 235,469 transects worldwide to show that occurs at a median distance of 392 meter from sandy shorelines. Moreover, find 33% shores harbour less than 100 m infrastructure-free space, 23–30% this space may be lost...
Sand nourishments are presently widely applied to maintain or enhance coastal safety and beach width. Over the last decades, global sand nourishment volumes have increased greatly, demand for is anticipated increase further in coming decades due sea level rise. With size request more complex shapes, an adequate prediction of morphodynamic evolution major importance. Yet, neither skill current state-of-the-art models such predictions nor primary drivers that control known. This article...
Satellite imagery along with image processing techniques prove to be efficient tools for bathymetry retrieval as they provide time and cost-effective alternatives traditional methods of water depth estimation. In this article, a nonlinear machine learning technique Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used derive shallow data Sint Maarten Island Ameland Inlet, The Netherlands, by combining echo-sounding measurements the reflectance blue, green, or red bands Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus...
Muddy coasts provide ecological habitats, supply food and form a natural coastal defence. Relative sea level rise, changing wave energy human interventions will increase the pressure on muddy zones. For sustainable management it is key to obtain information geomorphology of historical changes along areas. So far, little known about distribution behaviour at global scale. In this study we present scale assessment occurrence rates coastline change therein. We combine publicly available...
A common inference in research studies of observed and projected changes global ocean wave height storm surge, is that such are potentially important for long-term coastal management. Despite numerous the impacts anthropogenic climate change on trends wind waves, a clear link to sandy coastlines, at scale, yet be demonstrated. This study presents first-pass assessment potential between historical surge values recession/progradation rates coastlines since 1980s. Global datasets shoreline rate...
Forecasting shoreline evolution for sandy coasts is important sustainable coastal management, given the present-day increasing anthropogenic pressures and a changing future climate. Here, we evaluate eight different time-series forecasting methods predicting shorelines derived from historic satellite-derived shorelines. Analyzing more than 37,000 transects around globe, find that traditional forecast altogether with some of evaluated probabilistic Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, outperform...
Abstract Monitoring sandy shoreline evolution from years to decades is critical understand the past and predict future of our coasts. Optical satellite imagery can now infer such datasets globally, but sometimes with large uncertainties, poor spatial resolution, thus debatable outcomes. Here we validate analyse satellite-derived-shoreline positions (1984–2021) along Atlantic coast Europe using a moving-averaged approach based on coastline characteristics, indicating conservative...
Thirty one percent (31%) of the world’s coastline consists sandy beaches and dunes that form a natural defense protecting hinterland from flooding. A common measure to mitigate erosion along is implementation sand nourishments. The design acceptance such mitigating require information on expected evolution at time scales storms decades. Process-based morphodynamic models are increasingly applied, together with acceleration techniques, obtain detailed this wide scale ranges. This study shows...
Climate change (CC) is likely to affect the thousands of bar-built or barrier estuaries (here referred as Small tidal inlets - STIs) around world. Any such CC impacts on stability STIs, which governs dynamics STIs well that inlet-adjacent coastline, can result in significant socio-economic consequences due heavy human utilisation these systems and their surrounds. This article demonstrates application a process based snap-shot modelling approach, using coastal morphodynamic model Delft3D, 3...
Abstract. Sea level rise has major impacts in Europe which vary from place to and time depending on the source of impacts. Flooding, erosion saltwater intrusion lead via different pathways various consequences coastal regions across Europe. Flooding leads overflow, overtopping breaching damage assets, environment people. Erosion cliff failure along a pathway also affects ecosystems surface waters salinizes existing fresh water resources diminishing availability causing salt crops health...
Quantitative predictions of marine and aeolian sediment transport in the nearshore-beach-dune system are important for designing Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) coastal environments. To quantify impact marine-aeolian interactions on shaping NBS, we present a framework coupling three existing process-based models: Delft3D Flexible Mesh, SWAN AeoLiS. This facilitates continuous exchange bed levels, water levels wave properties between numerical models focussing domain. The coupled model is used...
In this study, we present a novel modeling framework that provides stylized representation of coastal adaptation and migration dynamics under sea level rise (SLR). We develop an agent-based model simulates household government agents adapting to shoreline change increasing flood risk. This is coupled gravity-based simulate coastward migration. Household characteristics are derived from local census data 2015, decisions calibrated based on empirical survey in France. integrate projections...
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are widely known as effective strategies for enhancing coastal resilience to climate change. However, assessing their long-term efficiency remains challenging due the complex interacting processes within systems and uncertainties associated with future scenarios.Many existing frameworks evaluating NbS focus on single-domain systems, often simplifying key reduce complexity of modeling. inherently include not only surface but also subsurface groundwater domain....