- Title
- Automated sensing of wave inundation across a rocky shore platform using a low-cost camera system
- Creator
- Power, Hannah E.; Kinsela, Michael A.; Stringari, Caio E.; Kendall, Murray J.; Morris, Bradley D.; Hanslow, David J.
- Relation
- Remote Sensing Vol. 10, Issue 1, no. 11
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs10010011
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Rocky coastlines are frequently used for recreation, however, they are often highly exposed and hazardous environments resulting in high risk to visitors. Traditional approaches to managing human safety in coastal settings (such as the surf lifesaving clubs that have proven effective on beaches) are not necessarily transferable to rock platforms due to their often remote and fragmented distribution and the different recreational uses. As such, a different approach is required. To address this, we present a low-cost camera system to assess the wave hazard on a high-visitation rocky shore platform: the Figure Eight Pools Rock Platform, New South Wales, Australia. The camera system is shown to be highly effective and allows identification of both the distance and frequency of wave inundation on the platform using a novel pixel analysis technique. Nearshore wave height is shown to be the primary factor driving inundation frequencies along the cross-platform transect investigated with some influence from wave period. The remotely sensed camera data are used to develop a preliminary overwash hazard rating system, and analysis of the first month of data collected suggests that the platform is highly hazardous to visitors. Future work will expand this hazard rating system, developing a predictive tool that estimates the overwash hazard level based on forecast wave and tide conditions to improve visitor safety at the site.
- Subject
- coastal hazards; rocky shore platforms; camera monitoring; wave overwash
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1393035
- Identifier
- uon:33490
- Identifier
- ISSN:2072-4292
- Rights
- © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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