Abstract. Shoreline represents the boundary between land and sea, its accurate extraction is of utmost importance because economic ecological value coastal areas. Nowadays, satellite remote sensing widely used for monitoring natural environment. Indeed, data are cost-effective periodically available over large areas at a relatively high spatial resolution. Hence, automatic shoreline from images...

In July 1999, California's ocean recreational bacterial water quality standards were changed from a total coliform (TC) test to a standard requiring testing for all three bacterial indicators: TC, fecal coliforms (FC), and enterococci (EC). To compare the relationship between the bacterial indicators, and the effect that changing the standards would have on recreational water regulatory actions...

in coastal areas, hydrodynamic factors make changes in shorelines geomorphology. this can affect coastal facilities and cause hazards to human societies in the areas. this study has investigated the influence of wave and tide properties on khamir port, hormoz strait in coast of persian gulf. the purpose of the study is to make a mathematical regional and local modeling of water level fluctuatio...