The Shoreline Analysis and Extraction Tool, SAET V 1.0 is a software developed in Python language focused on the automatic extraction of shorelines from optical satellite imagery (Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8). Its main algorithm is based on the shoreline sub-pixel detection approach, adapted from the SHOREX system (Pardo-Pascual et al. 2012 & 2018; and Sánchez-García et al., 2017). This software allows obtaining the pre-storm and post-storm shoreline, enabling to make a comparison and to detect the erosion impact of storms on low-lying beaches.
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Now that you understand a little about the ECFAS SAET tool, you can read a little further via the following resources:
1. Web page of the Sentinel-2 mission. Accessed 25 November 2022, https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel-2
2. Web page of the Landsat-8 and Landsat-9 missions. Accessed 25 November 2022, https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/landsat-8; https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/landsat-9
3. Cabezas-Rabadán, C.; Pardo-Pascual, J.E.; Palomar-Vázquez, J. (2021) Characterizing the Relationship between the Sediment Grain Size and the Shoreline Variability Defined from Sentinel-2 Derived Shorelines. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 2829. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13142829. Available from: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/14/2829
4. Pardo-Pascual JE, Palomar-Vázquez JM, Cabezas-Rabadán C. (2022) Analysis of the morphological changes of the beaches along the segment València – Cullera (E Spain) from satellite-derived shorelines. CIG [Internet]. 2022 Jul. 14 [cited 2022 Nov. 25];48(2):309-24. Available from: https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/cig/article/view/5215
5. Palomar-Vázquez J., J. Almonacid-Caballer, J.E. Pardo-Pascual and C. Cabezas-Rabadán (2021).
SAET (V 1.0). Open-source code. Universitat Politècnica de València.
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For more information on the ECFAS SAET tool see: https://www.ecfas.eu/public-deliverables/coastal-vulnerability-and-shoreline-mapping/
