Professional Diploma in Coastal Mapping and Monitoring

This professional diploma prepares you to measure how the coast changes and to turn that information into decisions. You will study coastal dynamics, from waves, tides and currents to erosion, accretion and shoreline retreat, and the key variables for monitoring beaches, cliffs, dunes, wetlands, estuaries and port areas; how to acquire satellite and aerial imagery and field data under coastal conditions; how to correct, classify and detect change in coastal scenes with ERDAS IMAGINE; how to orient image blocks, run aerotriangulation and generate digital models and orthomosaics with Leica Photogrammetry Suite; and how to extract shorelines, build profiles and produce erosion, vulnerability and flooding maps in a GIS.

What sets this professional diploma apart: a specific focus on the coastal zone rather than general mapping, with capture planning adapted to tides, waves, reflections and turbidity; a combined workflow that links the photogrammetric precision of LPS with the analytical power of ERDAS IMAGINE; multitemporal monitoring of shorelines, beaches, dunes, wetlands and cliffs for climate adaptation and risk reduction; attention to coastal legislation, public maritime-terrestrial domain, European directives and open coastal data; and a final project in which you monitor a real stretch of coast from diagnosis to technical report.