Description :
Coastal zones are the most populated regions on Earth. They suffer multiple stresses due to a broad variety of natural and anthropogenic forcing factors, e.g., climate-related sea level rise, extreme weather, wind stress, wave wash-up, storm surges, river floods in estuaries and deltas, pollutions, marine ecosystems destruction, ground subsidence (leading to relative sea level rise), coastal and upstream engineering (leading to sediment loss and shoreline modifications) and urbanisation.

Earth Observation (EO) enhances our capacity to characterise the different drivers and processes leading to extreme sea level events, flooding from inland runoff and related coastal hazards and assessing the related risk and vulnerability of coastal zones, which represents a major and urgent scientific challenge. Today, the novel capabilities and synergistic potential offered by EO technology and specially the Sentinel missions are opening the door to better characterise sea to land and land to sea coastal zone processes from space at unprecedented resolutions in space and time.

This interactive Agora will focus on the progress in monitoring from space Coastal Hazards stressors linked to land to sea and sea to land processes, will underline current and emerging issues and discuss future directions. After one hour of panel discussions, thirty minutes will be dedicated to discussion, recommendations, questions and answers.
Investigations in the Coastal Zone both inland and maritime: What are the challenges? What is the progress? What are the benefits?


Schedule of short (~3 mn) introduction talks by panelists.

Investigations in the Coastal Zone both inland and maritime: What are the challenges? What is the progress? What are the benefits?


Schedule of short (~3 mn) introduction talks by panelists.

Experiences in Chesapeake Bay enabling stakeholder workshops to co-deveop the full suite of products in CEOS-COAST
Merrie Beth Neely, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, USA

Sediment Transport and Polllution
Emily Smail, NOAA, USA

HYDROCOASTAL R&D activity
by David Cotton, SATOC, UK

Altimetry in the Coastal zone
Jesus Gomez-Enri, University of Cadiz, Spain

River Discharge by Altimetry, gauges and models - The Rhine River experience
Luciana Fenoglio-Marc, U. Bonn, Germany

Earth Console and UBonn & DTU results over estuaries & rivers
Marco Restano, SERCO for ESA-ESRIN