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