Shoreline Change Detection and Forecast along the Yancheng Coast Using a Digital Shoreline Analysis System

Abstract

Shorelines are the dynamic interfaces of both terrestrial and marine environments and are sensitive to climate and anthropogenic influences. The change in the shoreline plays a critical role in intertidal mudflat resources and coastal ecological environment. This paper extracts shoreline along the coast of Yancheng from 1983 to 2020 using a new procedure. The proposed procedure is based on a combination of object-oriented technology and thresholding the wetness components of the tasseled cap transformation (TCT). Then, we studied the temporal and spatial variation in the shoreline and predicted shore movement using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS). The results indicated that we yielded a better extraction of shoreline results using the new approach. The shoreline change analysis for the coast of Yancheng over 40 years indicated that 89% was accretion, 3% was under stable coast and erosion was 8%. The coast showed a significant trend of expanding to the sea. Finally, we forecasted shoreline position for the years 2019 and 2020 based on the historical shoreline position data from 1983 to 2009 and 1983–2010 by using the Kalman filter. The results of this study may help coastal researchers and decision makers to guide the use, management, and planning of coastal zones in further study.