ARGANS Ltd, a world leader in coastal change monitoring, is developing a global service for monitoring coastal erosion, environmental risk assessment, and research on the potential impact of climate change on the coast, including sea level rise and effect of increasingly dynamic weather systems.
We lead a project commissioned by ESA to assess the end-user benefits from such a service, bringing together professional geomorphological expertise from partners at the British Geological Survey (BGS), the Geological Survey Ireland (GSI), the Environmental Hydaulic Institute Cantabria and Arctus, working with the University of Quebec, Rimouski (UQAR) as part of a Coastal Change consortium.
ARGANS Ltd is focused on conducting assessments over 25 years using a range of satellite sensors such as Copernicus Sentinel Multispectral and SAR data, USGS Landsat data supported with a blend of some commercial data provided by the ESA Third Party Mission programme. Monitoring Coastal Erosion by employing a range of innovative Satellite Imagery techniques enables a large spatial scale and a high temporal and spatial resolution to be delivered in an affordable manner which can be made applicable to anywhere around the world.