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This book is intended as a conceptual roadmap to show how some of the numerous pieces of complex coastal systems intersect and might interact under changing future environmental regimes. It is addressed to a non-technical but environmentally literate audience that includes the lay public, policy makers, planners, engineers and academics interested in the causes and consequences of global changes as they are likely to affect coastal systems. The book also outlines some strategies for anticipating and responding to the challenges that lie ahead. The purpose is not to offer a technical treatise on how to build better numerical models or to provide the cognoscenti with new scientific details or theories. Quite on the contrary the authors aim to provide a holistic, easy-accessible overview of coastal systems and therefore use a writing style that is non-technical, nonmathematical and non-jargonized throughout. Wherever scientific terms are required to avoid ambiguity, a clear and simple definition is presented and those definitions are repeated in the glossary. The authors aim to communicate with all who care about the future of coastal environments. In Part 1, they present some underlying general "big picture" concepts that are applicable to coastal processes and coastal change worldwide. Part 2 reviews some of the more important physical, ecological and societal causes and outcomes of coastal change. A selection of case studies of some prominent and highly vulnerable coastal regions is presented in Part 3. Some strategies for facilitating and supporting collaboration among the global scientific community to enhance future coastal resilience are outlined in Part 4

Report No. NRL/MR/7230--12-9404 ; This report describes the data collected during one of a series of NRL remote sensing and calibration and validation (Cal/Val) campaigns, providing data and information for the development of models of coast types and their associated environmental factors for use in rapidly processing hyperspectral imagery (HSI) and generating shallow water bathymetric charts and trafficability maps. This report documents data that was collected during a remote sensing campaign that was conducted from May 18 to 29, 2009 at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area (SWBTA) located in Australia along a tropical stretch of the Queensland coast. Airborne collections from the HyMap (trademark) sensor were used to build shallow water bathymetric charts and trafficability maps that were provided to military planners during Exercise Talisman-Saber 2009, which was conducted primarily in Australia and surrounding waters from July 13 to 16, 2009. This report details both the airborne HyMap imagery collected as well as the ground and water spectral and geotechnical data collected to calibrate and validate the products developed in support of the exercise. ; Office of Naval Research One Liberty Center 875 North Randolph Street, Suite 1425 Arlington, VA 22203 ; Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.