The Changed Coastline in Loi Island, Chonburi Province during 1997 to 2004

Authors

  • Monton Anongponyoskun Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Fisheries, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand.
  • Puwadol Doydee Department of Fishery Management, Faculty of Fisheries, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand.

Keywords:

remote sensing, coastline, seawater current

Abstract

Loi Island is connected with Sri Racha, Chonburi Province by a bridge. The fishermen and tourists use this island in many purposes. This research was investigated during September 2004-June 2005. Many kinds of data resource were used in this study such as geoinformatic system data and
seawater current. From the final result showed that coastline is dynamics changed in every years and sensitive for protecting. The unique image in year of 2001 depicted a new bridge. Abandon of suspended solid was distribution around the coast. From human activity, size of Loi Island nowadays bigger than in year 1997 about 1.4 times, this was easy to interpret by remote sensing data. Although shape of new bridge was changed but seawater movement still having the same direction and speed have a little bit changed less than 10 % since under the bridge was still shallow. The seawater could not move in easy way. 

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Published

2006-10-30

How to Cite

Monton Anongponyoskun, and Puwadol Doydee. 2006. “The Changed Coastline in Loi Island, Chonburi Province During 1997 to 2004”. Agriculture and Natural Resources 40 (5). Bangkok, Thailand:249-53. https://li01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/anres/article/view/243963.

Issue

Vol. 40 No. 5 (2006): September-October

Section

Research Article

License

online 2452-316X print 2468-1458/Copyright © 2022. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/),
production and hosting by Kasetsart University of Research and Development Institute on behalf of Kasetsart University.