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Third beach nourishment project with submarine sands along Emilia-Romagna coast: geomatic methods and first monitoring results

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Emilia-Romagna coast consists of 110 km of low and sandy beaches, which are particularly exposed to coastal erosion. Among different defence projects, the current trend is going towards soft interventions, such as beach nourishment. In 2016, the third intervention of “Security projects through submarine sand nourishment for critical areas of the regional coastline” was completed. This paper concerns the analysis of the eight coastal stretches involved by this project. A Monitoring Plan for the years 2017 and 2018 has been arranged to evaluate the evolution of each beach and the intervention effectiveness. Morphological variations in terms of shoreline, height, beach profiles and accumulated or eroded volumes have been evaluated by comparing surveys performed on each beach at different times. In the specific case of this project, the presence of a new geodetic infrastructure along Emilia-Romagna coast, the Coastal Geodetic Network (RGC), ensured advantages to surveys’ realization. All the observed results show good evolutions from a general point of view, even if it is difficult to deduce a single trend for the eight beaches. On the other hand, the increasing availability and spatial coverage of data from monitoring surveys could provide powerful instruments for coastal studies. This paper confirms monitoring activities as an efficient way to evaluate beaches’ morphological changes and coastal defence intervention effectiveness.

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  1. Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering (DICAM), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Enrica Vecchi, Stefano Gandolfi & Luca Tavasci

  2. Arpae, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Italy

    Margherita Aguzzi, Nunzio De Nigris & Maurizio Morelli

  3. Regione Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Italy

    Carlo Albertazzi

  4. Gruppo Nazionale per la Ricerca in Ambiente Costiero (GNRAC), Genova, Italy

    Nunzio De Nigris

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Vecchi, E., Aguzzi, M., Albertazzi, C. et al. Third beach nourishment project with submarine sands along Emilia-Romagna coast: geomatic methods and first monitoring results. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei 31, 79–88 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-020-00879-w

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