Coastal zone monitoring using remote sensing techniques

Bangladesh is one of the largest deltas of the world and is densely populated. Three major rivers, the Ganges, Brahmaputra and the Meghna flow through this delta carrying huge amounts of water and sediment. The geomorphological processes must be understood in order to expedite the process of sedimentation in order to create new land for settlement. This calls for monitoring of the coastal area. Monitoring by using remote sensing is efficient. In this study both historical and more recent Landsat data have been used to see the temporal change over the years and this can be used as a model for other studies in this area