REMOTE SENSING AND GIS APPLICATIONS ON THE ROMANIAN COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT AND REHABILITATION WORKS

The modem remote sensing and GIS tools used in the coastal resource management will become one of the best alternatives to concentrate on the coastal vulnerability issues. In the present work will be presented the recent development of an increased understanding over the coastal process on synoptic scale afferent Romanian shore, and will give the possibility of an advised selection of different solutions for protection and conservation of the area. The work presents the certain approaches and results on GIS/spatial analysis based on RS data, towards an erosion control within Romanian littoral, presently under intense consolidation at the sea-land interface. The fusion of multiple, complementary image data sources (of different spatial/temporal, spectral/radiometric resolutions) and associated GIS databases, approached in a complex way, it were developed based on a geographic informational systems, and continuous upgraded within a national partnership projects. A similar system of mixed RS&GIS techniques, built within a scheme of multi-institutional collaboration, it was completed as a dynamic tool for coastal environmental education, as well a tool to asses, for a period of several decades, the sustainability and ICZM activities on Romanian coastal area. Certain results of its implementation within several projects of reconstruction were emphasized in the synthesis.