Journal of Marine Sciences ›› 2018, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (2): 36-43.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-909X.2018.02.005

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Coastline change monitoring and analysis with remote sensing in Hainan Island

SUI Yan1,2, ZAHNG Li*2,3, MU Xiao-dong4, WANG Zhi-yong1, LI Tong2,3, WANG Heng2,3, ZHEN Jia-ning2,3   

  1. 1. College of Geomatics, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Earth Observation of Hainan Province, Sanya 572029, China;
    3. Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China;
    4. Hainan Provincial Academy of Environmental Sciences, Haikou 570206, China
  • Received:2017-10-20 Revised:2018-03-06 Online:2018-06-15 Published:2022-11-21

Abstract: Monitoring and recognizing the dynamic changes of coastline are vital for the protection of coastal zones and the rational exploitation of coastal resources. In this study, Canny edge detector was used to extract the coastline data of the Hainan Island in 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2015 from the data source of Landsat TM/OLI images. Then, the changes of coastline length and land area were obtained to analyze the characteristics of temporal and spatial variations regarding the coastline of the Hainan Island over the past 25 years. The results show that the total length of the island's coastline had increased by 33.58 km from 1990 to 2015, with the coastline expanding outwards and the offshore area increasing in size. The changes mainly happened in the north and the east coasts where the artificial coastline had evidently increased and natural coastline such as muddy coastline diminished. Largely affected by human factors, the coastal development was diversified in patterns, with pond farming, construction of cities and towns, ports and piers as the main forms.

Key words: coastline, remote sensing, change analysis, Hainan Island

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