Monitoring for Coastal Resilience: A Project for Five Italian Beaches

Abstract

This paper presents the COPEMAP project, fruit of a research collaboration between the Università Politecnica delle Marche and the Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale. The project focuses on developing a methodology for the assessment of beach resilience as a function of both natural forcing (e.g. incoming wave fields) and natural protection (e.g. underwater sand bars). This is accomplished through simplified analyses of available video-monitoring data.