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SANDSNAP – AMASSING A BEACH GRAIN SIZE DATABASE IN THE UNITED STATES. (2023). Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 37, sediment.11. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v37.sediment.11
Abstract
U.S. beaches are data rich environments with readily accessible topographic and hydrodynamic data, but a national database of beach grain size information does not exist. Unfortunately, grain size is often poorly parameterized, particularly for geographically large studies, because it is unfeasible to collect beach grain size information on a large, multi-state or national scale with traditional methods. As a result, sediment size often has the largest uncertainty of the input parameters for sediment transport modeling (Soulsby, 1997). “SandSnap” is a research initiative to amass the first nationwide beach sand grain size database with the help of citizen scientists using their smart phones.References
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McFall et al. (2020): Technical Feasibility of creating a beach grain size database with citizen scientists. EDRD/CHL CHETN-IV-125.
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