Initial Attempts to Assess the Importance of the Distribution of Saltmarsh Communities on the Sediment Budget of the North Norfolk Coast

Abstract

Very high resolution imagery from an airborne multi-spectral scanner has been used to estimate the distribution of different saltmarsh communities along a thirty kilometre stretch of the North Norfolk coast. Field observations have been used to develop a mathematical relationship between the vegetation, physical environment and sediment accumulation. This relationship has been used to produce provisional sediment accretion maps for the North Norfolk coast.