1. Isle of Wight Centre for the Coastal Environment
Regions reaching for the sky: satellite information for risk management Coastal Risk Management by the Isle of Wight Council: experience in trans-national Interreg Projects
Claire Marriott
Isle of Wight Centre for the Coastal Environment
Isle of Wight Council UK

2. The Isle of Wight

3. IWCCE The Isle of Wight Centre for the Coastal
Environment (IWCCE) is a department of
the Isle of Wight Council and undertakes
activities on a local, regional, national and
transnational scale in relation to coastal and
geotechnical issues.

4. European Projects

5. Messina
MESSINA: Managing European Shorelines and Sharing Information on Nearshore Areas ( ). Ultimately, MESSINA aims at maximizing the benefits of future investments in coastline management and raise the public awareness about the need to manage the coastline in a sound and sustainable way.

6. Component 2 – monitoring & modelling the shoreline
To inventory and analyse existing coastline monitoring tools (ground-based, shipborne, airborne tools) and modelling instruments (hydrodynamic and geomorphological) used in Europe to measure and anticipate coastline evolution, as well as to establish and disseminate technical guidelines to be used by local coastal managers.

7. Monitoring Techniques -
Shipborne
Airborne
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IfSAR or InSAR)
LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging)
Airborne multispectral (MS) camera systems
Airborne thermal infrared radiometers (TIR)
Hyperspectral sensors.
bathymetric survey
side scan sonar
grab sampling

8. Monitoring Techniques –
Ground Based
Spaceborne
Levelling
Total station theodolite
Global positioning system (GPS)
Moderate Resolution
High Resolution

9. South-East Regional Strategic Coastal Monitoring Programme
A standard, repeatable and cost-effective method of monitoring of the coastal environment.
Channel Coastal Observatory, 2005

10. Conclusions
The MESSINA practical guide offers an overview of coastal monitoring and modelling techniques whilst also providing information on costs and potential applications to real-life case studies.
This is intended to be of value to those administrations or local authorities with little or no expert knowledge in this field and also provide a new perspective to allow local authorities to do existing work in a more efficient and effective manner.