Coast-Cams Image Analysis at Wooli Beach, Australia
The primary objective of this study was to measure the changes in "beach position" of Wooli Beach, New South Wales.
The primary objective of this study was to measure changes in "beach position", as well as consider the changes to the quarterly beach profiles measured along the stretch of beach covered by the camera monitoring. The beach position was considered by monitoring the high tide mark on a daily and monthly basis for the area of the beach being photographed. The quarterly beach profiles provide a record of the changes to the beach height and volume. Other valuable objectives for which the system can be used include measuring the impact of particular storms and recovery time from them, identifying trends from La Nina and El Nino cycles, gaining an understanding of nearshore bar/trough formations, calibration of wave and morphological models, increasing our understanding of processes within the whole embayment, and contributing to an overall model of Wooli Bay in conjunction with information from beach surveys, offshore data gathering, and other available data.
