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BEACHMED-e/OpTIMAL Beach Erosion Monitoring 147 Assesment, validation and further uses of LiDAR survey in the Western part of French Mediterranean sea Hugues Heurtefeux, Audrey Lesaignoux, Cléa Denamiel EID 1 -Mediterranee, DRE-LR 2 and Administrative Department of Hérault are currently developing a beach survey in the Gulf of Aigues-Mortes (Western part of the French Mediterranean sea) us- ing Airborne hydrographic LiDAR. This technique has been widely used for coastal surveys in the United States of America but it’s one of the first experimentations in South of France. This study presents an analysis of the results of this field testing to evaluate the capabilities of Hydrographic LiDAR to monitor coastal evolution. Altimetry precisions and density obtained are very encourag- ing and correspond fully to the existing needs. Introduction The topo-bathymetric campaign realised with the LiDAR technique on the Gulf of Aigues-Mortes coast is centred on new technologies as a purpose in order to realise an accurate and regular moni- toring of the shoreline. The provider of the LiDAR technology is the Sweden Company Blom Environment & Coastal Survey. The LiDAR pre-test flight (Mars 2006) and calibration (April 2007) were realised by this company. The final flying LiDAR campaign took place between 24 and 26 April 2007 and covered most of the Gulf of Aigues-Mortes coast. The main aim of this campaign was to validate the use of LiDAR tech- nology for the monitoring of the topography and the bathymetry of the nearshore area. In a first part, the study area, flying campaign, data acquisition and results provided by the Blom Environment & Coastal Survey AB Company (BECS AB) are described. The analysis, checking and validation of the results carried by EID Méditerranée are then presented in the second part. Finally and to conclude, an assessment of the results obtained on the Gulf of Aigues-Mortes with the LiDAR procedure is realised. The future of the use of such a technology with the aim of describing the evo- lution of the coast is also discussed. LiDAR mission: Flying campaign Description of the study area The study area covers 47 km² along the Gulf of Aigues-Mortes coast. This area is located between the Frontignan municipality (on the western part) and the Grande-Motte municipality (on the eastern part). Because of the convex form of the gulf, the survey area - represented in blue in Figure 1 - was cut into three parts: zones A, B and C. Indeed, the LiDAR data acquisition could only be done on rec- tilinear areas and in order to cover the entire area of the Gulf of Aigues-Mortes the cut-out in three rectilinear areas was the best technical solution. The coordinates of the three zones were given in Lambert III South system. 1 Ententende interdépartementale de Démoustication 2 Direction Régionale de l’Equipement Languedoc-Roussillon
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Assesment, validation and further uses of LiDAR survey in the Western
part of French Mediterranean sea
Hugues Heurtefeux, Audrey Lesaignoux, Cléa Denamiel
EID1-Mediterranee,DRE-LR2andAdministrativeDepartmentofHéraultarecurrentlydevelopingabeachsurveyintheGulfofAigues-Mortes(WesternpartoftheFrenchMediterraneansea)us-ingAirbornehydrographicLiDAR.ThistechniquehasbeenwidelyusedforcoastalsurveysintheUnitedStatesofAmericabutit’soneofthefirstexperimentationsinSouthofFrance.ThisstudypresentsananalysisoftheresultsofthisfieldtestingtoevaluatethecapabilitiesofHydrographicLiDARtomonitorcoastalevolution.Altimetryprecisionsanddensityobtainedareveryencourag-ingandcorrespondfullytotheexistingneeds.
IntroductionThetopo-bathymetriccampaignrealisedwiththeLiDARtechniqueontheGulfofAigues-Mortescoastiscentredonnewtechnologiesasapurposeinordertorealiseanaccurateandregularmoni-toringoftheshoreline.TheprovideroftheLiDARtechnologyistheSwedenCompanyBlomEnvironment&CoastalSurvey.TheLiDARpre-testflight(Mars2006)andcalibration(April2007)wererealisedbythiscompany.ThefinalflyingLiDARcampaigntookplacebetween24and26April2007andcoveredmostoftheGulfofAigues-Mortescoast.ThemainaimofthiscampaignwastovalidatetheuseofLiDARtech-nologyforthemonitoringofthetopographyandthebathymetryofthenearshorearea.Inafirstpart,thestudyarea,flyingcampaign,dataacquisitionandresultsprovidedbytheBlomEnvironment&Coastal SurveyABCompany (BECSAB)aredescribed.Theanalysis, checkingandvalidationoftheresultscarriedbyEIDMéditerranéearethenpresentedinthesecondpart.Finallyandtoconclude,anassessmentoftheresultsobtainedontheGulfofAigues-MorteswiththeLiDARprocedureisrealised.Thefutureoftheuseofsuchatechnologywiththeaimofdescribingtheevo-lutionofthecoastisalsodiscussed.
LiDAR mission: Flying campaign Description of the study areaThestudyareacovers47km²alongtheGulfofAigues-Mortescoast.ThisareaislocatedbetweentheFrontignanmunicipality(onthewesternpart)andtheGrande-Mottemunicipality(ontheeasternpart).Becauseoftheconvexformofthegulf,thesurveyarea-representedinblueinFigure1-wascutintothreeparts:zonesA,BandC.Indeed,theLiDARdataacquisitioncouldonlybedoneonrec-tilinearareasandinordertocovertheentireareaoftheGulfofAigues-Mortesthecut-outinthreerectilinearareaswasthebesttechnicalsolution.ThecoordinatesofthethreezonesweregiveninLambertIIISouthsystem.
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Figure 1 - Schematic representation of the 3 areas (zones A, B and C) covered by the flying LiDAR campaign on the Gulf of Aigues-Mortes.
Description of the final flying campaign and data acquisitionAlltheflyingcampaigns(pre-test,calibrationandfinalflights)wererealizedbytheBECSABCom-panywith theHawkEye II system (Figure2).This technologyallowsacquiring topographicandbathymetricdata.Inthebathymetricmode,LiDARemitsgreenlaserat532nmwitha4kHzfre-quency.Itisprojectedbyarotarymirrorwhichsweepswatersurfacewithswathwidthof120mandflightaltitudeof300m.AssociatedtotheLiDARsystem,navigationandpositionareprovidedbyanintegratedGPSandinertialreferencesystem(Figure2)whichdeliversaccuratecoordinatesinallthreedimensions.ThedataarereferencedonWGS84UTMprojectionsystemandtheacquisi-tionisrealisedwitha1Hzfrequency.
Figure 2 - LiDAR Hawkeye II system (left) and GPS station (right).
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AfterthecalibrationflightrealisedinSwedeninordertotestthesystem,the“AirCommander”planeequipped with LiDAR technology was ready for the final flying campaign in the Gulf of Aigues-Mortes.Between24and26April2007,threeflightswithatotaldurationof8h30allowedacquiringalldata.Meteorologicalconditionswereperfectduringthewholecampaign:1)watertemperaturewascirca18°C,2)airtemperaturewascirca22°C,3)windvelocitywascirca10km/hand4)turbiditymeasure-mentsshowedthatwaterqualityhadnoinfluenceonLiDARdataacquisitionwithavisibilityofcirca4m.
Description of the results and the dataAttheendofthecampaign,theBECSABCompanyprovidedtwotypesofdata:rawdata(morethan 80 million points and non geo-referenced orthophotos acquired each second during thewholecampaign)andthepost-processdata(7millionpointsandgeo-referencedorthophotos).TherawdatainLASandASCIIformatwasnotusedbyEIDMéditerranée. Infactonlythepost-processdataisreallyofinterestforoperationalstudies.Dataprocessingwasrealisedinthreesteps:
1) WGS84coordinatesweretransformedinLambertIIIsouthcoordinates;2) thetotalareacoveredduringthecampaignwascutinto23zones;3) datawerecleared(only30%ofthetotaldataisuseful)andtwoclassificationswereestablish:
groundpointsandhighvegetationpoints.Finallythepost-processdataprovidedbythecompanywere:1) theX,Y,ZpointsinASCIIformatgiveninLambertIIISouthcoordinates;2) theclassificationofthegroundandhighvegetationpoints;3) theregulargrids(withameshresolutionof2m,5mand10m)inASCIIandGeoTIFFformat
ofthetopographyandthebathymetry:digitalelevationmodel(DEM),digitalterrainmodel(DTM)anddigitalslopemodel(DSM);
4) the geo-referenced orthophotos (in Lambert III south coordinates) with a resolution of 1mand25cm.
Assessment of the technical course of the LiDAR 2007 mission Concerning the technical course of the campaign and the acquisition of data, the LiDAR 2007missionwasasuccess.MoreovertheexchangeswiththeBECSABCompanywereeasyanddatarestitutiontookplaceonly1monthafterthecampaign.Thisexperimentcanbethusreproducedwiththesamecompanyinthefuture.But, with the aim to show that the LiDAR technology is available to describe the nearshorebathymetryandtopographyandtoprovidebetterresultsthanothersmethods,allthepost-proc-essLiDARdataprovidedbythecompanyhadtobecarefullyanalysedandchecked.
LiDAR data analysis, checking and validation Checking and validation of the orthophotosThefirststepoftheLiDARdataanalysis,checkingandvalidationwastocomparetheorthophotosprovidedbythecompanytothoseproducedin2005byGaiaMapping.Thecomparisonconsistsingettingtheroads,houseroofs,vegetation,etc.,ofthetwotypesofphotostocoincide.OneexampleofthiscomparisondonebytheEIDMéditerranéewasrealisedwiththeorthophotosoftheFrontignanmunicipality(Figure3).Thetwoorthophotosareinnaturalcoloursandpresentthesameaestheticqualities.Moreoverthehouse roofs, the vegetation and the beach coincide with a great precision (Puissant andWeber,2006).Concerningthecontrasts,theLiDARortophotoshaveabetterqualitythanthatofortophotosprovidedbyGaiaMapping.TheLiDARtechnologyisthusvalidatedconcerningtheorthophotos.
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Figure 3 - Comparison of the orthophotos obtained with the LiDAR technology in 2007 (top) and those provided by Gaia Mapping in 2005 (bottom) in the municipality of Frontignan.
Validation of the Delauney triangulation: problems of boundary artefacts Theregulargrids(DTM,DEMandDSM)–deliveredbytheBECSABCompanyandgeneratedbyEIDMéditerranée-wereobtainedwithDelauneytriangulation(Figures4and5).Thiskindofgeostatisticisaninterpolationwithspecificrules:threedatapointsdefineonecirclewhichnotcontainotherdatapoints(in2D).Thisinterpolationcanalsobetransposedin3D.
Figure 4 - Non-Delaunay triangle (a); Delaunay triangle (b). Figure 5 - Illustration of the Delaunay triangulation.
TheTIN(TriangleIrregularNetwork)waschosenbecauseitisnaturallyadaptedtothesloperestitu-tion(Swales,2002).Generally,whendata is interpolatedsomeproblemscanappearat theboundaries.Thesecondstep of the data analysis, checking and validation was thus to know if theTIN generated someboundaryartefacts.Thefollowingprocedurewasused:1) twoadjacentareaswereinterpolatedseparately;2) thetwoareaswereputtogether;3) thecoincidenceofthetwoareaboundariesandtheprofilesobtainedatthejunctionwere
checked.
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TheprofilesgeneratedwiththisprocedurewereallcontinuousandthustheDelauneytriangula-tionwasverifiednottoproduceartefactsattheboundaries(Populus,2003).TheuseoftheDelauneytriangulationtogeneratetheDTM,DEMandDSMwasvalidated.
Checking and validation of the X, Y, Z bathymetric dataInordertovalidatetheX,Y,ZbathymetricdatadeliveredbytheBECSABCompany,EIDMéditer-ranéecomparedthesedatawiththoseobtainedwiththesinglebeamtechnologyinseveraldis-tinctareasoftheGulfofAigues-Mortes.Thecomparisonofthebathymetricdataobtainedwiththetwotechnologiesrequiresthegenera-tionofDTM(DigitalTerrainModel).EIDMéditerranéechosetogeneratetheLiDARDTMwiththeX,Y,ZdatadeliveredbytheBECSABCompanyandnottousetheLiDARDTMdeliveredbytheCompany.ThegenerationoftheLiDARandthesinglebeamDTMswasrealisedwithMapInfousingtheDe-launeytriangulationmethod.Concerningthesinglebeammeasurements,thedepthdatamustbecorrected-followingwatertemperatureandsalinity -beforethegenerationoftheDTM. Indeed, thevelocityof thesingle-beamsignalisdirectlylinkedtowatertemperaturefollowingtheformulabelow[1]:
Gapinmeters=(1/VT1-1/VT2)*d10*VT2[1]Where:- T1andT2arethetemperaturesat10mabovethebottomoftwoprofilesrealisedinthesame
locationbutnotunderthesameconditions- VT1andVT2arethesoundvelocitiesattemperaturesT1andT2- d10=10m
ThesoundvelocityinthewaterfollowingwatertemperatureisgivenbythecurveinFigure6.
Figure 6 - Sound velocity in the water (m/s) following water temperature (°C).
Thecomparisonbetweenprofilesmeasuredatdifferenttemperatureshadshownthatthegapthe-oryiswellcorrelatedtomeasurements.Thisgapincreaseswithdepthandprofilesslowlychangeclosetotheexternbar.Themeasurementerrorinthedepthneartheclosuredepththusresultsfromthecaptorerrorduetothevariationsoftemperature.Finally,thetemperaturecorrectioncanbeap-pliedonthesinglebeamdataandtheDTMisgeneratedwiththesecorrecteddata.TheX,Y,ZLiDARdataused in thiscomparisonare thepost-processeddata inLambert IIISouthcoordinates.
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AlthoughseveralcomparisonsoftheLiDARandmonobeamdataweredone,wejustpresentoneexamplehere.OneoftheareaswherethevalidationofthebathymetricX,Y,ZLiDARdatawasdoneistheVille-neuve-Lès-Maguelonezone(Figure7,Table1).
Figure 7 - Villeneuve-Lès-Maguelone zone.
Table 1 - Lambert III South Co-ordinates of the Villeneuve-Lès-Maguelone zone.
X1,Y1 723780m,134000m
X2,Y2 723920m,134100m
X3,Y3 724740m,132940m
X4,Y4 724590m,132890m
ThegenerationoftheDTMwithMapInfointhisareausingthetwotypesofdataandtheir3Drep-resentations(Figure8)allowedcomparingandvalidatingtheLiDARtechnologyconcerningbathy-metricdata.Indeed,thetwoDTMs(Figure7)aresimilar.MoreovertheLiDARDTMrepresentsthelittoralbarswithprecisionwhilethesinglebeamDTMgivesaresultwithasmoothersurface.TheLiDARtechnologycharacterisedthebottomirregularitiesandreliefbetterthansinglebeam.Itisthusagoodtoolforthemorphologicdescriptionofthenearshorearea.Inordertocomparewithmoreprecisionthetwotypesofdata,somebathymetricprofileswereex-tractedfromtheLiDARandthesinglebeamDTMs(Figure9).Afterseveralcomparisonsitcanbeestablishedthat:1) between0mand4.5mofdepththegapbetweenthetwotypesofdataislowerthan10cm;2) after4.5mofdepththisgapisbetween10cmand60cm.Theincreaseofthegapfollowingdepthbetweenthetwotypesofdatacanbeexplainedbythein-creaseofturbidityorbythenatureofthebottom.TheLiDARprecisionthusdependsonturbidityandthenatureofthebottom.Indeedwhenthebottomroughnessincreasesthereflectanceandtheampli-tudedecrease(Lesaignoux,2006).Forexample,inthezoneofVilleneuve-Lès-Maguelonethepresenceofarockyreliefbetween8mand11mofdepthcanexplainthelargegapbetweenthetwotypesofdata.TheLiDARdataarethuslesspreciseonthisareathanthesinglebeamdata.
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Figure 8 - 3D representation (with MapInfo) of the Maguelone MNT generated with the X, Y, Z LiDAR data and with the X, Y, Z singlebeam.
Figure 9 - Bathymetric profiles of the Maguelone zone generated with LiDAR data (red) and with singlebeam (green).
TheLiDARX,Y,ZbathymetricdataarethusvalidatedontheGulfofAigues-MortesandalthoughLiDARprecisiondecreaseswhenthedepthincreases,theLiDARtechnologyprovidegoodresultsconcerningthebottomrelief.
Checking and validation of the X, Y, Z topographic dataValidation of the LiDAR DTM generated with these dataInordertovalidatetheX,Y,ZtopographicdatadeliveredbytheBECSABCompany,EIDMéditer-ranéecomparedthesedatatothoseobtainedwithD-GPStechnologyinseveraldistinctareasoftheGulfofAigues-Mortes.Suchasforthebathymetricdata,thecomparisonofthetopographicdataobtainedwiththetwotechnologiesrequiresthegenerationofDTMs(DigitalTerrainModel).EIDMéditerranéechosetogeneratetheLiDARDTMwiththeX,Y,ZdatadeliveredbytheBECSABCompanyandnottousetheLiDARDTMdeliveredbytheCompany.ThegenerationoftheDTMsfromLiDARandD-GPStechnologieswasrealisedwithMapInfousing
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theDelauneytriangulationmethod.AlthoughseveralcomparisonsoftheLiDARandD-GPSdataweredone,wejustpresenthereoneexample.OneoftheareaswherethevalidationofthetopographicX,Y,ZLiDARdatawasdoneisthezoneofVilleneuve-Lès-Maguelone(Figure10,Table2).
Figure 10 - Location of topographic measurements (in red) in the Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone zone.
Table 2 - Lambert III South coordinates of the area of topographic measurements.
X1 723573m Y1 134124mX2 723616m Y2 134254mX3 723886m Y3 134146mX4 723723m Y4 134011m
ThegenerationoftheDTMwithMapInfointhisarea,usingthetwotypesofdataandtheir3Drep-resentations(Figure11),allowedtocompareandtovalidatetheLiDARtechnologyconcerningthetopographicdata.Indeed,thetwoDTMs(Figure11)presentsimilarities.MoreovertheLiDARDTMrep-resentsthedunereliefwithprecisionwhiletheD-GPSDTMgivesaresultwithasmoothersurface.Forexample,thebermiswelldescribedbytheLiDARDTMwhileitdoesnotappearontheD-GPSDTM.MoreovertheinterpolationofthedatameasuredwithD-GPSgeneratesalargeareaofartefacts(redcircleontherightofFigure11).InfactthisareacouldnotbecoveredbythemeasurementsandtheDTMisextrapolated.Withthesamenumberofdata(approximately4.000pointsforeachmethod–seeFigure12atthebottom)-butnotthesamerepartitionofthedata-thequalityofthetwotypesofmeasurementsisnotthesame.IndeedtheregulardistributionoftheLiDARdataallowsdescribingthebottomir-regularitieswithprecision.TheirregulardistributionoftheD-GPSdatadescribedsomeareaswithgreatprecision(areaswithnumerousdata)anddidnotdescribesomeothersareas(areaswithoutdata).Becauseofthislackofdatainsomeareas,theinterpolationneededforthegenerationoftheDTMcreatessomeartefactsandsmoothesthedata.
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Figure 11 - 3D representation of the DTM (realised with MapInfo) measured in the Maguelone zone with LiDAR technol-ogy (left) and with D-GPS (right); red area: artefacts.
Figure 12 - Repartition of data (realised with MapInfo) measured in the Maguelone zone with the LiDAR technology (left) and with D-GPS (right).
Figure 13 - Topographic profiles in the Maguelone zone measured with LiDAR technology (red) and with D-GPS (green).
TheLiDARtechnologycharacterisedthebottomirregularities(Figure13)andreliefbetterthantheD-GPStechnology.Itisthusagoodtoolforthetopographicdescriptionofthenearshoreareaal-thoughthemeasurementerroriscirca15cm.
Results at the land-sea interfaceEIDMéditerranéewasinterestedinvalidatingtheLiDARDTMattheland-seainterface.Indeedthestudyoftheshorelineisoneofthemainobjectivesinbeachprotection.AshorelineareawasselectedintheMaguelonezoneattheland-seainterface.This area contains 156 data measurements (Zmin= - 0.276 m and Zmax= 0.635 m) and 128 data
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measurements (Zmin= -0.38mandZmax=0.76m)obtainedrespectivelywithD-GPSandLiDARtechnology(Figure13).ThespatialrepartitionofdataseemstobesimilarandtheLiDARdatadidnotcoverthefullshorelineduetothelaserimprecisioninthisarea.ThegenerationoftheDTMwithMapInfointheshorelineareausingthetwotypesofdataandtheir3Drepresentations(Figure14)allowedcomparingandvalidatingtheLiDARtechnologyconcerningthetopographicdataattheland-seainterface.
Figure 14 - 3D representation of the DTM (realised with MapInfo) of the Maguelone zone at the land –sea interface meas-ured with the LiDAR technology (left) and with D-GPS (right). Repartition of points at the bottom.
TheprofilesextractedfromtheDTM(Figure15)allowstudyingthelocationoftheshorelinewiththetwotypesofmeasurements.TheresultofthiscomparisonisthatLiDARtechnologycannotre-producetheshoreline.Indeedtheerrorofmeasurementsiscloseto40cmwhichisveryrelevantinthisfield(Figure15,redline).D-GPSmeasurements(Figure15,greenline)arethusmorepreciseconcerningtheshoreline.Finally,theLiDARX,Y,ZtopographicdatawerevalidatedintheGulfofAigues-MortesandalthoughLiDARisnotadaptedforthedescriptionoftheshoreline,LiDARtechnologyprovidegoodresultsconcerningtherelief.
Figure 15 - Topographic profiles at the land-sea interface meas-ured with LiDAR technology (red) and with D-GPS (green).
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Checking and validation of the DTM LiDAR dataIn1982SHOM3measured–withthetraditionaltools-thetopo-bathymetryofanareaof160km²locatedbetweenthemunicipalitiesofFrontignanandPalavas-les-Flots.Thenumberofdatameas-uredbySHOMwasapproximately15.000pointsinthisarea.Thehorizontalandverticalprecisionsarecirca30cmforadepthgreaterthan30m.In the Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone zone, 5.000 data measurements were realised by SHOM and3.000.000datameasurementswererealisedwithLiDARtechnology.ThecomparisonbetweentheDTMprovidedbySHOMandtheLiDARDTM(Figure16)showsthatLiDARtechnologyallowstohaveaverygoodprecisionfortherelief. IndeedtheinnerbariswellreproducedontheLiDARDTMwhileitdoesnotappearontheSHOMDTM.MoreovertherockyreliefandtheouterbararebetterrepresentedontheLiDARDTM.Thesedifferencesareessentiallyduetothedensityofdatameasurements. Indeedtheinterpola-tionisalwaysbetterforalargedatasetandLiDARtechnologyprovides600timesmorepointsthanSHOMintheareaofMaguelone.
Figure 16 - 3D representation (realised with MapInfo) of the LiDAR 2007 DTM (left) and of the SHOM 1982 DTM (right).
ConclusionThetechnicalcourseofthecampaignandthedataacquisitionaswellastheanalysisoftheresultsoftheLiDAR2007missionwasasuccess.IndeedEIDMéditerranéeshowedthatLiDARtechnologyprovidesbetterresultsthanthetraditionalmethodsfortopo-bathymetricmeasurements.Thepreci-sionofLiDARdataisalwayssatisfyingexceptconcerningtheshorelinedescription.ConcerningtheuseofLiDARtechnologyintheGulfofAigues-Mortesitisthuspossibletoconcludethat:- LiDARtechnologyallowstodescribethetopo-bathymetryofnearshoreareas;- acquisitionoftopo-bathymetricdataandorthopohotoswithLiDARtechnologyis30%lessex-
pensivethanbytraditionalways;- acquisitionofaverylargedatasetbyLiDARtechnologyallowstoimprovethequalityandthe
precisionofDTMs,DEMsandDSMs.Concerning the prospects of the use of LiDAR data, many forms can be explored in the Gulf ofAigues-mortes.First,theanalysisoftopo-bathymetricdataallowsdescribingthesedimentarystructureswithpreci-
3 SHOM:ServiceHydrographiqueetOcéanographiquedelaMarine.
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sion(Populusetal.,2001).Thelong-termacquisitionofLiDARdatainthesameareashouldbeinter-estinginordertocomparetheevolutionofthesestructuresfollowingtheseasonsandtheyears.Second,LiDARdataallowsdescribingthesubmersionofthelandduetosealevelrise(becauseofstormsorclimatechanges).Indeed,theanalysisofstaticsubmersionmaps(exampleinFigure17)shouldprovideafirstassessmentoftheimpactofsealevelriseonthelandscape.
Figure 17 - Static submersion due to a sea level rise of 1m (“Surfer” 8 software) – DTMs of the Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone area before submersion (left) and after submersion (right), generated with LiDAR data (top) and D-GPS and singlebeam data (bottom). The red circles represent the numerical artefacts.
Third, the use of hydrodynamic models generating the currents following meteorological condi-tions,swell,submersionandtopo-bathymetry(obtainedwithLiDARtechnology)shouldprovideafirstassessmentoftheeffectsofcurrentsonthesedimentarytransport.Fourth,LiDARdatacanbepost-processedwiththeaimtodetermineecologicalunits:forexampletodeterminethepresenceandtheconcentrationofsomehabitatsorspecies.Andatlast,acomparisonamongwebcamimages,satelliteimagesandLiDARdatashouldbedonewiththescopeofdeterminingthebestwaytodescribeshorelineevolution.
AcknowledgmentThe topo-bathymetriccampaign realisedwith theLiDARtechnique in theGulfofAigues-Mortescoast(WesternpartoftheFrenchMediterraneansea)wascarriedwithintheframeworkoftheOCRINTERREGIIICBEACHMED-eProgramme.Thisprogrammeisaresearchschedulecentredonnewtechnologieswiththepurposeofrealisingapreciseandregularmonitoringoftheshoreline.ThefinancialpartnersofthisambitiousprojectaretheEuropeanCommission,“Conseilgénéraldel’Hérault”andthe“DirectionRégionaledel’équipementLanguedocRoussillon”.
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