African coastal camera network efforts at monitoring ocean, climate, and human impacts.

ABSTRACT: Regular and long-term monitoring of coastal areas is a prerequisite to avoiding or mitigating the impacts of climate and human-driven hazards. In Africa, where populations and infrastructures are particularly exposed to risk, there is an urgent need to establish coastal monitoring, as observations are generally scarce. Measurement campaigns and very high-resolution satellite imagery are costly, while freely available satellite observations have temporal and spatial resolutions that are not suited to capture the event scale. To address the gap, a network of low-cost, multi-variable, shore-based video camera systems has been installed along the African coasts. Here, we present this network and its principle of sharing data, methods, and results obtained, building toward the implementation of

SUBMITTER: Abessolo GO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9883390 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature