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Coastal landform change is driven by sediment transport and redistribution of sand. In this chapter, we present techniques for mapping volumes of land mass using rectangular segments and analyzing volume evolution and redistribution in absolute and relative terms.
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Hardin, E., Mitasova, H., Tateosian, L., Overton, M. (2014). Volume Analysis. In: GIS-based Analysis of Coastal Lidar Time-Series. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1835-5_5
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