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Coastal systems are amongst the most dynamic in geomorphology and the most troublesome for environmental managers and civil engineers. This is because their landform and process regimes are characterised by rapid change over the short term (days and weeks) - making them difficult to predict and manage over the medium term (periods of months and years). Although there has been significant progress in the understanding of nearshore processes and landforms on low depositional coasts over the last 20 years (Carter 1988), physical models have proved difficult to extend from the timescales of a single tidal cycle to the multi-year prediction periods required by environmental managers and engineers. By monitoring actual morphological changes and correlating them with real energy inputs from waves and tides it has been possible to study the nature of medium term change directly by exploring the correlations of energy input and morphological change. Birkbeck College and Babtie Group are currently employing both strategies in parallel in a study of the morphodynamics of spits and nesses on the East Anglian coast of England as part of the UK Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) sponsored Coastal Area Modelling for the Long Term (CAMELOT) programme. This chapter aims to show how data on morphodynamics can be collected at the coast and how such data can be integrated for a holistic analysis. Examples of preliminary work in this area will be presented from spit morphodynamic data at Scolt Head Island on the North Norfolk coast
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Raper, J., Livingstone, D., Bristow, C., McCarthy, T. (2003). Constructing a Geomorphological Database of Coastal Change Using GIS. In: Green, D.R., King, S.D. (eds) Coastal and Marine Geo-Information Systems. Coastal Systems and Continental Margins, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48002-6_28
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