Shifting shoreline of Sagar Island Delta, India

RS-based change detection of coastal processes and elements at risk mapping in Sagar Island, West Bengal, India

Automatic Measurement of Shoreline Change on Djerba Island of Tunisia

This study presents measurement of changes using image processing techniques, Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) and Landsat images along the coast of the island of Djerba, Tunisia. Three regions of this island were selected: Rass Errmall, El Kastil and Aghir. Accretions as well as erosion processes were observed in the study areas between 1984 and 2009. The average of the erosion was aro...

Shifting Paradigms in Island Biology

The ease of travel by jet aircraft has opened up island areas not only for study but also for introduction of weeds, pests, and pathogens. We are at a critical juncture in the study of island organisms, which have become more accessible at the same time that they are vanishing. With the urgency for study of island organisms, we have many new tools, especially molecular ones, which have validate...

Recent ShoReline eRoSion and VeRtical accRetion PatteRnS, St. catheRineS iSland

Sunkle Sagar

i Acknowledgements I would like to thank my master thesis advisors for their support and reviews. I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Gunter Saake for his support and confidence in me and allowing me to work on master thesis in his group. I would like to thank Marko Rosenmüller, Martin Kuhlemann and Norbert Siegmund for their helpful reviews and suggestions. Marko and Martin reviewed this thesis fo...