Tsunami trimlines identified across different islands of the Tonga archipelago (NERC Grant NE/X002454/1)
Tsunami trimlines identified across different islands of the Tonga archipelago. Trimlines have been used as a reference land feature following the January 2022 Tonga tsunami event that ripped off vegetation and built-up areas. Trimlines are distinctive limits between an area with sand coverage, vegetation destruction, and soil erosion on the one hand, and the unaffected natural vegetation on the other. This distinction provides a good landmark to map the inundation width and the landward extension of tsunami runup. In this case, the trimlines have been manually delineated by BGS - Earth Observation team using different high-resolution satellite datasets both optical (KompSat, Planet, Pleiades, WorldView) and radar (TerraSAR-X). Trimlines are well known from task-force publications documenting recent tsunami detection efforts and provide key information to support tsunami triggering mechanism models. For more info, see
https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/tsunami-terms
and Scheffers et al. (2012),
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-010-9691-6
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TON
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- 2009
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TONGA [id=936000]
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- 1979
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- 2022-01-16
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- 2022-04-25
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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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- See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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- We manually analysed high-resolution optical (KompSat, Planet, Pleiades, WorldView) and radar (TerraSAR-X) and draw the lines.
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