Basin scale spatiotemporal analysis of shoreline change in the Black Sea

In this study, we carried out a basin-scale long-term shoreline change analysis for the Black Sea coastline. The study consists of 28 subsections with 78943 transects along A total number 96 Landsat satellite images, between 1972 and 2018 are used analysis. average conditions characterized by erosion mean value in −0.17 m/year, while 23% coastline has eroded more than 1 m/year last 40+ years. results depict that different mechanisms processes driven river sediment loads (e.g. Danube Kızılırmak Deltas), anthropogenic effects Southeastern coast Turkey), entrapment coastal sediments active throughout influencing dynamics. It is shown that, at multi-annual scale, erosional hotspots generally located low-lying sandy areas Yeşilırmak, Danube, River Deltas, together barriers spits from Northwestern Crimea Southwestern shores. Hence, 21% widest beaches length estimated as 4987 km based on most recent images.