A high-resolution 4D terrestrial laser scan dataset of the Kijkduin beach-dune system, The Netherlands.

ABSTRACT: Sandy coasts form the interface between land and sea and their morphologies are highly dynamic. A combination of human and natural forcing results in morphologic changes affecting both nature values and coastal safety. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) is a technique enabling near-continuous monitoring of the changing morphology of a sandy beach-dune system with centimetre-order accuracy. In Kijkduin, The Netherlands, a laser scanner sampled one kilometre of coast at hourly intervals for about six months. This resulted in over 4,000 consecutive topographic scans of around one million points each, at decimetre-order point spacing. Analysis of the resulting dataset will offer new insights into the morphological behaviour of the beach-dune system at hourly to monthly time scales, ultimately in

SUBMITTER: Vos S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9050685 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature