Monitoring shoreline changes in the northern Suez Canal Zone using remote sensing and GIS applications

Abstract

The land-water boundary known as the shoreline is the area most conducive to development. Due to both natural and human influences, these areas are highly variable. To study the coastline morphology, the coastal region of the northern Suez Canal is chosen. Shoreline retreat is extracted, monitored, measured, and interpreted using GIS and remote sensing techniques. Three zones made up the area under investigation. The shoreline studying and monitoring showed that zone 1, Suffering from erosion rates was found on the coast of El-Tina plain (-17.2 to -11.9 m/year). Converted Eastward to accretion at rates reached +19.7 m/year. While over zone II, the results show that the investigated zone suffer from continuous regression (-0.82 to -5.690 m/year) and in Zone III, the results show that the investigated zone suffered from regression in the western side by rates reached -8.52 m/year and accretion at rates reached to +13.7 m/year. Prediction of shoreline position in years (2030, 2040 and 2050) is implemented based on the rates of changes.