Satellite remote sensing and geographic information system for monitoring morphodynamics of the active Yellow River Delta, China

An integrated approach of satellite remote sensing and geographic information systems techniques has been employed to survey and monitor the contemporary processes and the dynamics of the actual active delta lobe (Post 1976), i.e. the most rapidly changing portion of the Yellow River Delta, China. The main used sources for data analysis are the Landsat-MSS and -TM images (60 scenes or windows) spanning the last nineteen years. The research have been focused on the coastal and fluvial morphologic changes. This research demonstrates that satellite remote sensing in combination with GIS techniques is very useful for documenting the time-sequential dynamic morphologic changes and for analyzing the contemporary processes involved.