Spatial-temporal analysis of coastline changes around Bohai Sea based on remote sensing in recent 20a

This study examined the dynamic changes of the Bohai Sea coastline in recent 20 years through spatial-temporal analysis using combined data from remote sensing and GIS technology. Three standard false color remote sensing images derived from visual interpretation and the vectorization from artificial methods are adopted to complete the extraction of the Bohai Sea coastline information. The results show that the Bohai Sea coastline has an increasing trend from 1990 to 2010, especially with the fastest growth during 2000 to 2010. The coastlines along the Liaoning and Shandong Provinces generally had a growing trend, while the shoreline along the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region changes most rapidly. These analyses have suggested that human influence is the key factor in causing the significant changes of the Bohai Sea coastlines in recent years.