CoastSat: A Google Earth Engine-enabled Python toolkit to extract shorelines from publicly available satellite imagery

CoastSat is an open-source software toolkit written in Python that enables the user to obtain time-series of shoreline position at any sandy coastline worldwide from 30+ years (and growing) of publicly available satellite imagery. The toolkit exploits the capabilities of Google Earth Engine to efficiently retrieve Landsat and Sentinel-2 images cropped to any user-defined region of interest. The resulting images are pre-processed to remove cloudy pixels and enhance spatial resolution, before applying a robust and generic shoreline detection algorithm. This novel shoreline detection technique combines a supervised image classification and a sub-pixel resolution border segmentation to map the position of the…

• NO
  NSW Office of Environment and Heritage
• UO
  University of New South Wales
• AR
  Australian Research Council

  Awards: LP100200348, LP170100161, LP0455157, DP150101339