Kenneth Pye
Associates
Ltd.
Scientific Research,
Consultancy and Investigations
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Air photographs analysis
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Historical air photographs provide invaluable information about the morphological change on a decadal scale. Large parts of the British coast were photographed during the Second World War by the RAF to help identify which areas were most vulnerable to invasion. On the east coast of England, these photographs show what the coast looked like before the disastrous storm surge in 1953. The examples below show the Titchwell area of Brancaster Bay, north Norfolk, taken in 1946, 1972 and 2003. Following breaching of the frontal dunes during the storm surges in 1949 and 1953, a significant tidal channel was created and the reclaimed agricultural land quickly reverted to active saltmarsh. The combination of fresh, brackish and saltwater marsh are now managed as an RSPB Nature Reserve.
Click here for a summary of our coastal projects Recent Publications Pye,
K. and Blott, S.J.
(2006). Coastal processes and morphological change in the Dunwich - Sizewell
area, Suffolk, UK. Journal of Coastal Research 22, 453-473. Blott,
S.J., Pye, K.,
van der Wal, D. and Neal, A. (2006). Long-term morphological change and its
causes in the Mersey Estuary, NW England. Geomorphology 81, 185-206. |
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