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Vandebroek, Elena (author), Lindenbergh, R.C. (author), van Leijen, F.J. (author), de Schipper, M.A. (author), de Vries, S. (author), Hanssen, R.F. (author)This paper presents a semi-automated approach to detecting coastal shoreline change with high spatial- and temporal-resolution using X-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. The method was applied at the Sand Motor, a “mega-scale” beach nourishment project in the Netherlands. Natural processes, like waves, wind, and tides, gradually...journal article 2017
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Radermacher, M. (author), de Schipper, M.A. (author), Swinkels, Cilia M. (author), MacMahan, Jamie (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author)In recent years, the application of large-scale beach nourishments has been discussed, with the Sand Motor in the Netherlands as the first real-world example. Such protruding beach nourishments have an impact on tidal currents, potentially leading to tidal flow separation and the generation of tidal eddies of<br/>length scales larger than the...journal article 2016