Authors : Mirna Sebat, Juliet Salloum and Bahjat Mohamad
Abstract: Coastal erosion is of growing concern around the world when the shoreline moves landward, coastal erosion becomes a serious problem and the rate of change has to be calculated. To rotinom shoreline changes this study has been used Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) which is an extension for Arc GIS 10.3 Software developed by USUG. The GIS analysis for the period (1958-2010) shows that shoreline was generally retreating in the most of its parts reaching its highest point in the Al Kabir-Al Shamali River estuary. A total of transects built in the Al Kabir-Al Shamali River estuary have values less than zero (i.e., retreat shows the highest retreating rate almost 90 m) and outside of the error margin (±10 m) while the transect lines which have positive values higher than zero (i.e., advance shows of the highest degree in the Al-Faid land region). The value of EPR (+1.81) shows the advanced shoreline and the transects are shown in gradients close to the red to indicate sedimentation.
Mirna Sebat, Juliet Salloum and Bahjat Mohamad, 2018. The Shoreline Changes in Syria Using Geographical Information System (GIS). Online Journal of Earth Sciences, 12: 1-7.