Coastal monitoring activities in the frame of TRITON project

摘要

The coastal areas of the Northwest Peloponnese suffer degradation due to the sea action and other natural and humaninducedcauses. Changes in beaches, ports, and other man-made constructions need to be assessed, both after severeevents and on a regular basis, to build models that can predict the evolution in the future. Thus, reliable spatial dataacquisition is a critical process for the identification of the coastline and the broader coastal zones for geologists andother scientists involved in the study of coastal morphology. In the frame of INTERREG bilateral call, a project titled«Development of management Tools and diRectives for immediate protection of bIodiversity in coasTal areas affectedby sea erOsion and establishment of appropriate eNvironmental control systems (TRITON) is being executed. Threelaboratories of the University of Patras execute multidisciplinary monitoring surveys both onshore and offshore and thepresent paper describes those activities.