Impacts of breaching on a bar-built estuary, example of the Senegal River new mouth monitored with satellite imagery from 2003 to 2010
Coastal dynamics ; Coastal environment ; Estuary ; Flood ; Flood control ; Human impact ; LANDSAT ; Remote sensing ; Senegal ; Time series
Acción antrópica ; Crecida ; Dinámica litoral ; Estuario ; LANDSAT ; Litoral ; Lucha contra las inundaciones ; Senegal ; Serie cronológica ; Teledetección
This paper presents the results of a survey of an estuary in Senegal since a human-induced breach was opened in a bar at the mouth of the embayment in October 2003 to reduce the effect of a major flood event. The evolution of the new mouth's width
[b2] Univ. Cheikh Anta Diop, Inst. des Sciences de la Terre, Dakar, Senegal