“…Therefore the vegetation is very natural. However caution should be used when using the vegetation line as an indicator of the coastline, in areas where human practices can significantly alter the position of the coastline (Gould et al, 2015, Gibbs et al, 2015. Despite the limitations of the computer-aided photointerpretation methodology, the results on rates of change on the studied coastline are comparable to the work of the authors who had to work on the issue at the scale in West Africa.…”