Cylchlythyr
2023
Newsletter
Take part – take a picture
A project aimed at tracking how the Welsh coast is changing over time due to natural phenomenon such as storms and rising sea levels as well as the impact of human activity, is being launched this spring.
CoastSnap is a citizen science project – where members of the public collect data about the natural world. It aims to encourage the public to take photos of the Welsh coastline from specific sites along the Wales Coast Path. Each site will have a special cradle to hold a mobile phone, to ensure photos are all taken from the same angle.
A specialised technique turns photos into valuable coastal data that is used by coastal scientists to understand and learn how coastlines might change in the coming decades. The data will help inform coastal flood and erosion management decisions.
Structures in the images are georectified, which enables the changing position of the coastline to be measured, from snaps submitted by the public, to an accuracy similar to that of professional coastal survey teams.
This is a great project to promote to your customers and visitors. They can be part of this exciting project by taking a photo from one of the fixed-point photography cradles. It will be added to all the other shared images to create a time-lapse film to show the coastal changes. Photo uploads and results can be found at:
https://cy.wcmc.wales/coastsnap
The sites chosen for the CoastSnap project are: Black Rock, Goldcliff, Lamby Way, Penarth, Porthcawl, Port Talbot, Langland Bay, Pendine, Tenby (two sites), Aberaeron, Criccieth (two sites), Beaumaris, Llandudno, Rhyl, and Talacre.
