A method based on beach profile analysis for shoreline identification Marco Luppichini University of Ferrara, Italy Monica Bini University of Pisa, Italy Andrea Berton Clinical Physiology Institute CNR, Italy Nicola Casarosa Consorzio di Bonifica, Italy Silvia Merlino CNR - ISMAR, The Institute of Marine Sciences, Italy Marco Paterni Clinical Physiology Institute CNR, Italy This is a section of Ninth International Symposium “Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques”(DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0030-1) by Laura Bonora, Donatella Carboni, Matteo De Vincenzi, Giorgio Matteucci Firenze University Press Firenze 2022 https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0030-1.05

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Coastal erosion coupled with human-induced pressure has severely affected the coastal areas of the Mediterranean region. In this context, the Pisa coastal plain shows a long history of erosion, which started at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The work aims to provide a method and a software to extract the shoreline position. The algorithm is based on the variation of the topographic beach profile caused by the transition from water to sand. The algorithm is promoted by the release of a QGIS v3.x plugin uploaded on the official repository of the software.

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