TY - JOUR
T1 - PyShoreVolume 1.0.0
T2 - A Python based Shoreline Change and beach Volumetric Change Analysis tool
AU - James, Owen C.
AU - Schillereff, Daniel N.
AU - Grieve, Stuart W.D.
AU - Baas, Andreas C.W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s)
PY - 2024/4/12
Y1 - 2024/4/12
N2 - Shoreline Change Analysis (SCA) and Volumetric Change Analysis (VCA) are of growing importance to coastal managers throughout the world. The volume, resolution and accuracy of shoreline configurations are gradually improving, which demands tools for efficient processing and analysis. The limited number of systems that combine the two analysis types have lengthy workflows or require commercial software licences, with no current tool that automates VCA from a time series of Digital Elevation Models (DEM's). We present a new, dedicated and open-source package for automating SCA and VCA in the Python environment. It is designed with a user-friendly interface and workflow, delivers efficient processing speeds, automatically generates map based graphical outputs and computes a full range of positional statistics. We verify the package delivers equivalent outputs to existing tools (AMBUR, DSAS) and demonstrate strong performance by reconstructing erosion and accretion over the last twenty years along the beaches of the Taw and Torridge Estuary, North Devon, UK, a region known to have a complex sediment and morphometric dynamics.
AB - Shoreline Change Analysis (SCA) and Volumetric Change Analysis (VCA) are of growing importance to coastal managers throughout the world. The volume, resolution and accuracy of shoreline configurations are gradually improving, which demands tools for efficient processing and analysis. The limited number of systems that combine the two analysis types have lengthy workflows or require commercial software licences, with no current tool that automates VCA from a time series of Digital Elevation Models (DEM's). We present a new, dedicated and open-source package for automating SCA and VCA in the Python environment. It is designed with a user-friendly interface and workflow, delivers efficient processing speeds, automatically generates map based graphical outputs and computes a full range of positional statistics. We verify the package delivers equivalent outputs to existing tools (AMBUR, DSAS) and demonstrate strong performance by reconstructing erosion and accretion over the last twenty years along the beaches of the Taw and Torridge Estuary, North Devon, UK, a region known to have a complex sediment and morphometric dynamics.
KW - Accretion
KW - Erosion
KW - Python
KW - Shoreline Change Analysis
KW - Volumetric Change Analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85190138194&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cageo.2024.105591
DO - 10.1016/j.cageo.2024.105591
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85190138194
SN - 0098-3004
VL - 187
JO - Computers and Geosciences
JF - Computers and Geosciences
M1 - 105591
ER -
