Monitoring Yearly Change Patterns of the Surface Tidal Trail (STT) in Tidal Flats: A Novel Morphological Indicator Extracted from a Near-Infrared Terrestrial Laser Scanner

Tidal flats play an important role in the geomorphological and biological dynamics of coasts. Research on the morphological evolution of tidal flats constitutes one of the key research issues pertaining to the sustainability of coastal ecosystems and related coastal defense issues. In this work, a novel indicator, the surface tidal trail (STT...