Coastal Erosion and Shoreline Change in Ganjam Coast along East Coast of India
Received Date: Mar 15, 2018 / Accepted Date: Mar 18, 2018 / Published Date: Apr 24, 2018
Abstract
One of the rapidly changing coastal landforms is shoreline. It is very necessary to understand exact detection and frequent monitoring of shorelines through coastal processes and changing aspects of various coastal features. The present study is emphasized at investigating the shoreline changes along the Ganjam Coast, South Coast of Odisha by using geospatial techniques. The survey of India topographic maps and Landsat images were primarily used to extract shoreline features using software’s like Erdas Imagine and Arc GIS. The present study area is the Ganjam coast which is located on the south coast of Odisha which is from Prayagi to Bahuda river mouth. The beach has been eroded particularly in the Ramayapatam and Podampeta coastal tract due to various coastal processes that has taken place; such variations in the coastal processes are recorded by Landsat images and true colour image (Google earth) and also by repetitive field survey at different coastal sectors. The nature and magnitude of erosion indicates the immediate effect of waves attacking the coast under the impact of the low-pressure systems over the sea and the long-term impact of the loss of equilibrium between the waves and the coastline under the impact of the regimes of changing climate and sea level rise.
Keywords: Shoreline; Erosion; Accretion; Satellite images; Geographical Information System (GIS)
Citation: Monalisha M, Panda GK (2018) Coastal Erosion and Shoreline Change in Ganjam Coast along East Coast of India . J Earth Sci Clim Change 9: 467. Doi: 10.4172/2157-7617.1000467
Copyright: © 2018 Monalisha M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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