LANDSAT application of remote sensing to shoreline-form analysis

The author has identified the following significant results. Correlations for 55 segments were quite low, showing few values greater than .6. Most of the correlations substantially increased when they were run for the breakdown of Assateague into eight coastal segments. Some of these correlations reflect strong and important relationships. The correlations between coastal orientation and the standard deviation of rate of shoreline erosion is .93 at the .01 level of significance. Other significant relationships were orientation and swash slope (.84); standard deviation of erosion and subaerial beach slope a(-.79); foredune height and subaerial beach width (-.89); foredune height and mean plus standard deviation of erosion (-.81); and rate of erosion over time and subaerial beach width (.72). Low correlation was found between sand grain size and erosion and between sand grain size and orientation.