Coastal Profile Crossings
- Author: Andres Payo & Olaf Conrad (c) 2020
- Menu: Terrain Analysis | Coastal Morphology
Description
The Coastal Profile Crossings tool identifies the crossing points between coastal profiles along a reference coastline (from CliffMetrics Normal outputs) and any other coast lines and calculates the distance and coastline differences metrics. 
Parameters
|  | Name | Type | Identifier | Description | Constraints | 
|---|
| Input | SeaSide Profile Lines Layer | shapes, input | LINES_SeaSide | - | - | 
| LandSide Profile Lines Layer | shapes, input | LINES_LandSide | - | - | 
| Coast Lines Layer | shapes, input | LINES_Coast | - | - | 
| Output | Crossings at Sea Side | shapes, output | CROSSINGS_SEASIDE | - | - | 
| Crossings at Land Side | shapes, output | CROSSINGS_LANDSIDE | - | - | 
| Distances to profile start point | shapes, output | DISTANCES | Distances > 0 if towards sea side (acretion) and < 0 if towards landside (erosion) | - | 
| Options | Parent Attributes | choice | ATTRIBUTES | attributes inherited by parent lines layers | Available Choices:
[0] index
[1] attributes
[2] index and attributes
Default: 0 | 
Command Line
Usage: saga_cmd ta_cliffmetrics 1 [-LINES_SeaSide ] [-LINES_LandSide ] [-LINES_Coast ] [-CROSSINGS_SEASIDE ] [-CROSSINGS_LANDSIDE ] [-ATTRIBUTES ] [-DISTANCES ]
  -LINES_SeaSide:     	SeaSide Profile Lines Layer
	shapes, input
  -LINES_LandSide:    	LandSide Profile Lines Layer
	shapes, input
  -LINES_Coast:       	Coast Lines Layer
	shapes, input
  -CROSSINGS_SEASIDE: 	Crossings at Sea Side
	shapes, output
  -CROSSINGS_LANDSIDE:	Crossings at Land Side
	shapes, output
  -ATTRIBUTES:        	Parent Attributes
	choice
	Available Choices:
	[0] index
	[1] attributes
	[2] index and attributes
	Default: 0
  -DISTANCES:         	Distances to profile start point
	shapes, output