Predicting coastal erosion in St. Kitts: Collaborating for nature and culture

- This study aims to reconstruct past and predict future erosion and accretion trends of the rapidly changing west coast of St. Kitts (Lesser Antilles).
- A long term dataset for the years of 1986-2015 of LANDSAT-MSS, TM, ETM and OLI-TIRS imagery was used to analyze past and future shoreline movement based on extracted historical shoreline vectors.
- Using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS), developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), net shore movement (NSM) and end point rates (EPR) were calculated for this 12 km stretch of shoreline.