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dc.contributorDepartment of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics-
dc.creatorKanwal, S-
dc.creatorDing, X-
dc.creatorSajjad, M-
dc.creatorAbbas, S-
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-05T05:58:51Z-
dc.date.available2020-05-05T05:58:51Z-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10397/82147-
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMolecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)en_US
dc.rights© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
dc.rightsThe following publication Kanwal S, Ding X, Sajjad M, Abbas S. Three Decades of Coastal Changes in Sindh, Pakistan (1989–2018): A Geospatial Assessment. Remote Sensing. 2020; 12(1):8, is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12010008en_US
dc.subjectCoastal erosionen_US
dc.subjectDSASen_US
dc.subjectGeographic information systemen_US
dc.subjectIndus delta regionen_US
dc.subjectLandsaten_US
dc.subjectRemote sensingen_US
dc.titleThree decades of coastal changes in Sindh, Pakistan (1989-2018) : a geospatial assessmenten_US
dc.typeJournal/Magazine Articleen_US
dc.identifier.volume12en_US
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/RS12010008en_US
dcterms.abstractCoastal erosion endangers millions living near-shore and puts coastal infrastructure at risk, particularly in low-lying deltaic coasts of developing nations. This study focuses on morphological changes along the ~320-km-long Sindh coastline of Pakistan over past three decades. In this study, the Landsat images from 1989 to 2018 at an interval of 10 years are used to analyze the state of coastline erosion. For this purpose, well-known statistical approaches such as end point rate (EPR), least median of squares (LMS), and linear regression rate (LRR) are used to calculate the rates of coastline change. We analyze the erosion trend along with the underlying controlling variables of coastal change. Results show that most areas along the coastline have experienced noteworthy erosion during the study period. It is found that Karachi coastline experienced 2.43 0.45 m/yr of erosion and 8.34 0.45 m/yr of accretion, while erosion on the western and eastern sides of Indus River reached 12.5 0.55 and 19.96 0.65 m/yr on average, respectively. Coastal erosion is widespread along the entire coastline. However, the rate of erosion varies across the study area with a general trend of erosion increasing from west to east in the Indus Delta region (IDR), and the highest average erosion rate is 27.46 m/yr. The interdecadal change during 1989-1999, 1999-2009 and 2009-2018 periods depicted an increasing linear trend (R2 = 0.78) from Karachi to Indus River (IR) East zone. The spatial trend from west to east is positively correlated with mean sea level rise, which has increased from 1.1 to 1.9 mm/year, and negatively correlated with topographic slope, which is found to be decreasing eastward along the coastline. The findings necessitate appropriate actions and have important implications to better manage coastal areas in Pakistan in the wake of global climate change.-
dcterms.accessRightsopen accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationRemote sensing, 2020, v. 12, no. 1, 8en_US
dcterms.isPartOfRemote sensingen_US
dcterms.issued2020-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000515391700008-
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85079606873-
dc.identifier.eissn2072-4292en_US
dc.identifier.artn8en_US
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dc.description.pubStatusPublisheden_US
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