Spatial-temporal Analysis of Shoreline Change and sea level rise along Krishna delta, India,

Abstract

Due to global warming, sea level rise and its impact on shoreline became a burning issue in all over world especially low laying coast like Maldives and East Indian coast. There are number of reports and studies on sea level rise and its impact on shoreline changes. Shoreline is highly productive and most dynamic zone because of interference of three processes namely terrestrial, atmospheric and marine, acting on the earth surface. Due to this it’s becoming an area of development like rapid urbanization and industrialization in the world. This is also an area which is very sensitive to sea level rise along coast. So as level of sea is increasing, the population of the coast becoming very Vulnerability to natural phenomena. So analysis of shoreline changes and relation with sea level rise becomes very important due to its importance in the coastal management and planning program in all over the world. Therefore, the present study is focusing on the effect of sea level change on shoreline position along Andhra coast. Because Shoreline change study helps to understand provides useful data on predicting the future trend which is useful in further planning.