OSM 2025 Call for Abstracts: CP003: Coastal Remote Sensing form Near-Field Sensors and Earth-Observing Satellites

[Dylan Anderson]

Dear Colleagues,

 

Please consider submitting an abstract for the CP003: Coastal Remote Sensing from Near-Field Sensors and Earth-Observing Satellites session at the upcoming Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026. This session is intended to be a combination of OSM’s prior Nearshore Remote Sensing session with the prior Coastal Monitoring from Earth-Observing Satellites session.

 

Session Title: CP003: Coastal Remote Sensing from Near-Field Sensors and Earth-Observing Satellites

Topic Area: Coastal and Estuarine Hydrodynamics and Sediment Processes

Session Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/prelim.cgi/Session/257718

Session Description:

During the past decade, LiDAR, radar, multispectral and thermal sensors, as well as modern photogrammetry have become inexpensive and highly accessible. Platforms including ground-based monitoring stations, occupied and autonomous aircraft, earth-observing satellites, citizen science, and social media harvesting provide datasets with increasingly high resolution, both in time (seconds to days) and space (sub-meter), allowing for detailed observations of changes in coastal landscapes and the related nearshore and beach processes driving those changes. These advances allow for a new understanding of the patterns, rates, and causes of nearshore processes and morphodynamics. The rapid progress in machine learning, cloud computing, and data assimilation, combined with coastal monitoring from both the near-field platforms and from earth-observing satellites now offers coastal scientists and engineers with large volumes of data that can inform sustainable coastal management and future adaptation strategies, bringing coastal geosciences into an era of big data. This session will highlight scientific results that have emerged from these technologies and methods and explore challenges and plans for future remote sensing efforts. We welcome investigations from diverse physical environments, using or improving upon a variety of observation techniques, and applied to understanding or modelling coastal processes.

Abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, 20 August, 2025.

 

We look forward to a lively session in Scotland!

 

Best regards,

 

Session chairs

Dylan Anderson, U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center, Dylan.L....@usace.army.mil

Aikaterini “Kat” Konstantinou, University of Plymouth, a.konst...@plymouth.ac.uk

Freya Muir, University of Glasgow, f.mu...@research.gla.ac.uk