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Contact person: Contact person:

prof. Kazimierz Furmańczyk prof. Kazimierz Furmańczyk kaz@univ.szczecin.plkaz@univ.szczecin.pl

Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Marine Cartography, Institute of Marine Science, Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Marine Cartography, Institute of Marine Science, University of SzczecinUniversity of Szczecin

Coastal Zone environmet investigation Coastal Zone environmet investigation using remote sensing datausing remote sensing data

Field of our activities:

• coastal changes and performing coastal protection studies with the use of remote sensing methods

• coastal changes as a result of an extreme storm events

• shoreline evolution and coastal dynamics related with sea-level rise and storm risk and its interaction with human activities

• coastal classification and historical coastal vegetation changes

• GIS applications to coastal morphodynamics and landscape analysis

Projects:

• BASYS /1996 – 1999/ - (Baltic Sea System Study), Subgroup 4, Nearshore and Coastline Processes - MAST-3

4.1. Shoreline evolution. 4.2. Investigation of wide range circulation patterns by aerial photographs / satellite images.

• Coastlearn /2001-2003/ - Multimedia distance training package for Central and Eastern Europe on Integrated Coastal Management - Leonardo da Vinci, PinMatra

• EUROSION /2002-2003/ - an European initiative for Sustainable coastal erosion management. Assessment on Coastal Erosion in West Polish Coast - pilot site.

• MESSINA /2004-2006/ - Managing European Shoreline and Sharing Information on Near-shore Areas – INTERREG III C

• MICORE /2008-2010/ - Morphological Impacts and COastal Risks induced by Extreme storm events - 7 Framework Programme

• and 3 KBN grants connected with coastal zone investigation

Requested equipment:

• Multispectral scanner - spectral bands: visible and near-IR

• High resolution photogrammetry camera

• Topo/Bathy LiDAR (red and green)