Beach-face slope dataset for Australia

Vos, Kilian; Deng, Wen; Harley, Mitchell Dean; Turner, Ian Lloyd; Splinter, Kristen Dena Marie

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1345-2022

Articles | Volume 14, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1345-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1345-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 3

Data description paper

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25 Mar 2022

Data description paper |

| 25 Mar 2022

Beach-face slope dataset for Australia

Kilian Vos, Wen Deng, Mitchell Dean Harley, Ian Lloyd Turner, and Kristen Dena Marie Splinter

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1345-2022-supplement

Data sets

Beach-face slope dataset for Australia Kilian Vos, Mitchell D. Harley, Kristen D. Splinter, Ian L. Turner, and Deng Wen https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5606216

Model code and software

CoastSat toolbox Kilian Vos https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2779293

CoastSat.slope toolbox Kilian Vos https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3872442

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Along the world's coastlines, we find sandy beaches that are constantly reshaped by ocean waves and tides. The way the incoming waves interact with the sandy beach is dictated by the slope of the beach face. Yet, despite their importance in coastal sciences, beach-face slope data remain unavailable along most coastlines. Here we use satellite remote sensing to present a new dataset of beach-face slopes for the Australian continent, covering 13 200 km of sandy coast.