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dc.contributor.author Lakmali, EN
dc.contributor.author Deshapriya, WGA
dc.contributor.author Jayawardene, KGIA
dc.contributor.author Raviranga, RMP
dc.contributor.author Ratnayake, NP
dc.contributor.author Premasiri, HMR
dc.contributor.author Senanayake, IP
dc.contributor.editor Hemalal, PVA
dc.date.accessioned 2022-07-26T09:27:16Z
dc.date.available 2022-07-26T09:27:16Z
dc.date.issued 2016-07
dc.identifier.citation Lakmali, E.N., Deshapriya, W.G.A., Jayawardene, K.G.I.A., Raviranga, R.M.P., Ratnayake, N.P., Premasiri, H.M.R., & Senanayake, I.P. (2016). Long term coastal erosion and shoreline positions of Sri Lanka. In P.V.A. Hemalal (Ed.), Proceedings of the ERE 2016 Annual Conference on Earth Resources Management (pp. 69-73). Department of Earth Resources Engineering, University of Moratuwa. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/18470
dc.description.abstract Coastal zone of Sri Lanka is key to the sustainable development of the country. However, the erosion of this coastal zone has been identified as a long term problem. Therefore, coastal sediment dynamics around the country has to be identified to develop an appropriate coastal zone management plan. Remote sensing and GIS techniques can be used for quantitative and qualitative analyses of coastal monitoring activities including understanding the coastal erosion and accretion trends. In this study, past and recent Google Earth satellite images have been used to analyze erosional and accretional trends in the coastal zone, all around Sri Lanka. Using these results, near shore sediment transportation directions along the coastline around the country were also predicted. Most of the south-western coastline of Sri Lanka shows considerable erosion during stormy conditions under south-western monsoon period, but mostly recovered during fair weather northeastern monsoon conditions. Therefore, no any severe long term erosion conditions prevail in the western, south-western and north-western coasts. However, isolated locations in the north-eastern and eastern coastline shows considerable erosion. Predicted nearshore sediment transportation directions proved that it is mainly governed by wind and waves of southwest and northeast monsoons. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Department of Earth Resources Engineering en_US
dc.subject Coastal erosion en_US
dc.subject Coastal sediment dynamics en_US
dc.subject Coastline en_US
dc.subject Google Earth images en_US
dc.title Long term coastal erosion and shoreline positions of Sri Lanka en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Earth Resources Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.year 2016 en_US
dc.identifier.conference ERE 2016 Annual Conference on Earth Resources Management en_US
dc.identifier.place Katubedda en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 69-73 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Proceedings of the ERE 2016 Annual Conference on Earth Resources Management en_US
dc.identifier.email nalinratna2010@gmail.com en_US


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