Earth observation applications for coastal sustainability: potential and challenges for implementation

dc.contributor.authorPoliti, Eirini
dc.contributor.authorPaterson, Shona K.
dc.contributor.authorScarrott, Rory
dc.contributor.authorTuohy, Eimear
dc.contributor.authorO'Mahony, Cathal
dc.contributor.authorCámaro-García, Walther C. A.
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.contributor.funderNatural Environment Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-23T03:44:29Z
dc.date.available2019-10-23T03:44:29Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-20
dc.description.abstractThe coast is home to unique ecosystems, where complex ecological processes take place through the interaction of terrestrial, aquatic, atmospheric, and human landscapes. However, there are considerable knowledge and data gaps in achieving effective and future change-proof sustainable management of coastal zones around the world due to both technical and social barriers, as well as governance challenges. Currently, the role of Earth observation (EO) in addressing many of the recognised information gaps is small and under-utilised. While EO can provide much of the spatiotemporal information required for historical analysis and current status mapping, and offers the advantage of global coverage; its uptake can be limited by technical and methodological challenges associated mostly with lack of capacity and infrastructure, product accuracy and accessibility, costs, and institutional acceptance. While new initiatives and recent technological progress in the EO and information technology arena aim to tackle some of these issues so that EO products can be more easily used by non-EO experts, uptake is still limited. This paper discusses how EO can potentially inform transformative practices of planning in the coastal water zone, by using examples to demonstrate the EO potential in providing information relevant to decision-making framed by international agreements, such as the United Nations Agenda 2030, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Sendai Framework for Risk Reduction. By presenting evidence for how EO can contribute to innovative opportunities and data synergies at scale, the paper discusses opportunities and challenges for a more solution-led approach to sustainable coastal management.en
dc.description.sponsorshipNatural Environment Research Council (Grant NE/E009328 (GloboLakes project), and Future Earth Coasts project)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationPoliti, E., Paterson, S. K., Scarrott, R., Tuohy, E., O’Mahony, C. and Cámaro-García, W. C. A. (2019) 'Earth observation applications for coastal sustainability: potential and challenges for implementation', Anthropocene Coasts, 2(1), pp. 306-329. DOI: 10.1139/anc-2018-0015en
dc.identifier.doi10.1139/anc-2018-0015en
dc.identifier.endpage329en
dc.identifier.issn2561-4150
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleAnthropocene Coastsen
dc.identifier.startpage306en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8812
dc.identifier.volume2en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCanadian Science Publishingen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020::RIA/687289/EU/Coastal Waters Research Synergy Framework/Co-ReSyFen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCUK/NERC/NE/E009328/1/GB/Strategies to manage toxic cyanobacetrial blooms in lakes: remote sensing, modelling and cost benefit analysis/en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCUK/NERC/NE/J023396/1/GB/Global Observatory of Lake Responses to Environmental Change (GloboLakes)/en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCUK/NERC/NE/J023345/2/GB/Global Observatory of Lake Responses to Environmental Change (GloboLakes)/en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCUK/NERC/NE/J022810/1/GB/Global Observatory of Lake Responses to Environmental Change (GloboLakes)/en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCUK/NERC/NE/J023345/1/GB/Global Observatory of Lake Responses to Environmental Change (GloboLakes)/en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCUK/NERC/NE/J02211X/1/GB/Global Observatory of Lake Responses to Environmental Change (GloboLakes)/en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCUK/NERC/NE/J021717/1/GB/Global Observatory of Lake Responses to Environmental Change (GloboLakes)/en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCUK/NERC/NE/J024279/1/GB/Global Observatory of Lake Responses to Environmental Change (GloboLakes)/en
dc.relation.urihttps://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/10.1139/anc-2018-0015#.XaXEnFVKiCi
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2019. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectEarth observationen
dc.subjectSustainabilityen
dc.subjectCoastal managementen
dc.subjectInternational conventionsen
dc.subjectData integrationen
dc.titleEarth observation applications for coastal sustainability: potential and challenges for implementationen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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