Bibliometric Analysis of Data Sources and Tools for Shoreline Change Analysis and Detection

Johnson Ankrah, Ana Monteiro and Helena Madureira
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Johnson Ankrah: Geography Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto, Via Panorâmica Edgar Cardoso, 4150-564 Porto, Portugal
Ana Monteiro: Geography Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto, Via Panorâmica Edgar Cardoso, 4150-564 Porto, Portugal
Helena Madureira: Geography Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto, Via Panorâmica Edgar Cardoso, 4150-564 Porto, Portugal

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 9, 1-23

Abstract: The world has a long record of shoreline and related erosion problems due to the impacts of climate change/variability in sea level rise. This has made coastal systems and large inland water environments vulnerable, thereby activating research concern globally. This study is a bibliometric analysis of the global scientific production of data sources and tools for shoreline change analysis and detection. The bibliometric mapping method (bibliometric R and VOSviewer package) was utilized to analyze 1578 scientific documents (1968–2022) retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science databases. There is a chance that in the selection process one or more important scientific papers might be omitted due to the selection criteria. Thus, there could be a bias in the present results due to the search criteria here employed. The results revealed that the U.S.A. is the country with the most scientific production (16.9%) on the subject. Again, more country collaborations exist among the developed countries compared with the developing countries. The results further revealed that tools for shoreline change analysis have changed from a simple beach transect (0.1%) to the utilization of geospatial tools such as DSAS (14.6%), ArcGIS/ArcMap (13.8%), and, currently, machine learning (5.1%). Considering the benefits of these geospatial tools, and machine learning in particular, more utilization is essential to the continuous growth of the field. Found research gaps were mostly addressed by the researchers themselves or addressed in other studies, while others have still not been addressed, especially the ones emerged from the recent work. For instance, the one on insights for reef restoration projects focused on erosion mitigation and designing artificial reefs in microtidal sandy beaches.

Keywords: shoreline change; coastal erosion; sea level rise; remote sensing; Landsat; machine learning; GIS; climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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