Abstract

The Sunda Strait tsunami occurred on the coast of west Banten and South Lampung at 22nd December 2018, resulting in 437 deaths, with10 victims missing. The disaster had various impacts on the environment and ecosystem, with this area suffering the greatest effects from the disaster. The utilisation of remote sensing technology enables the monitoring of coastal areas in an effective and low-cost manner. Shoreline extraction using the Google Earth Engine, which is an open-source platform that facilitates the processing of a large number of data quickly. This study used Landsat-8 Surface Reflectance Tier 1 data that was geometrically and radiometrically corrected, with processing using the Modification of Normalized Difference Water Index (MNDWI) algorithm. The results show that 30.1% of the coastline in Pandeglang Regency occurred suffered abrasion, 20.2% suffered accretion,while 40.7% saw no change. The maximum abrasion of 130.2 meters occurred in the village of Tanjung Jaya. Moreover, the maximum shoreline accretion was 43.3 meters in the village of Panimbang Jaya. The average shorelinechange in Pandeglang Regencywas 3.9 meters.

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