What is CoastSnap?
CoastSnap is an innovative community beach monitoring program that enables citizens to help researchers monitor change on beaches. CoastSnap Ireland, based out of NUI Galway, hopes to use this technique to develop a coastal monitoring program for Irish beaches.
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We have developed smart-phone cradles, so all you need to do is take a snap at one of our locations, and share it with us. By controlling the position and angle of your phone camera, we can measure the changing beach width and shape, and movement of the shoreline, to discover how each beach responds to changing ocean conditions.
How will we use your photos?
We use your CoastSnap photos to map how the beach changes over time, and discover how different beaches respond to constantly changing ocean conditions.
We create movies and time-lapse images to visualise the change in the shoreline and the size and distribution of surf zone bars and rips.
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CoastSnap data provides a valuable record of the movement of sand between the exposed and submersed parts of the beach system. Coastal researchers and managers can use that data to investigate how much the beach might change during extreme conditions, or in response to the long-term effects of climate change such as sea level rise.
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