EGU - General Assembly 2018

Bathymetry mapping with remote sensing methods for supporting

Marine Spatial Planning in Cyprus

Evagorou, E., Mettas, C., Agapiou, A., Themistocleous, K ., Hadjimitsis, D.

Cyprus University of Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics,
ERATOSTHENES Research Centre, 2-6 Saripolou Street, 3603, Limassol, Cyprus (evagoras.evagorou@cut.ac.cy)

ABSTRACT
The aim of this study is to focus on the available Remote Sensing (RS) techniques and methods to obtain bathymetric data. Some of the RS
methods used in the past include either active sensors (e.g., lidar, radar) or passive sensors (e.g., multispectral, hyperspectral). By
combining optical satellite images and reducing considerably systematic errors, researchers are able to obtain reliable bathymetric data. In
the framework of this study, multispectral imagery will be used with different resolution.

MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING (MSP) AND BATHYMETRY IN CYPRUS

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) refers to a public process, investigating and dealing with the spatial and time-
based distribution of human activities in marine areas for achieving the ecological, economic and social
intentions which are usually identified over a political process. The implementation of an exact MSP
is essential for all coastal countries especially for Cyprus, an island with a geostrategic position in the area of
eastern Mediterranean. The main purpose of MSP is to integrate various marine activities, thus improving
the sustainable growth of the marine area. Considering that sea activities are being carried out at the bottom
of the sea, sea column and the sea surface, bathymetrical data are considered as a crucial component for an
integrated MSP.
STUDY AREA
The coastline of Limassol town (Cyprus) was
chosen as the study area of this work where
there are many conflicts between the
activities. The calibration is performed
through 500 field points taken with lidar
sensor measure from the Department of land
surveyors.

Figure 1: Study area

Figure 2: Bathymetry data measured with Lidar sensor

WORKFLOW PROCESSING STEPS

Landsat 8 multispectral Sea activities
bands Extract water surface
subtraction

Kernel Filter
5x5 Radiometric calibration

Log ratio Atmospheric corrections

transformation

Sun glint corrections

Bathymetry Data

Figure 3: Landsat 8 images during processing

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Ratio bathymetry

Elevations 5-25 m 5-15 m 18-25 m

RMS - Linear 2.256 1.676 1.885