🛰️ 4 Steps to Detect Coastline Changes from Satellite

Python and OpenCV to detect coastline changes over time

Alessio Vaccaro
Towards Data Science
6 min readApr 14, 2020

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Introduction

Coasts are a very dynamic system in which the phenomena of erosion, and therefore of retreat, or advancement of the coastline are managed by numerous meteoclimatic, geological, biological and anthropic factors.

In the case where the action of marine abrasion is greater than the deposit, there are evident cases of coastal erosion that literally lead to the disintegration and

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