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Beloved beaches were washed offshore by Cyclone Alfred—but most of this sand will return
But sand dunes will take longer. And there are areas where the damage ... We can track weather systems from satellites, get up-to-date weather and wave forecasts on our phones and use drones to see ...
Hybrid dune experiment tests erosion resistance during storms
height of the waves and erosion of sand." When storms are approaching, researchers and students spring into action. Then ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation19d
Drone maps reveal scale of sand swallowed in cyclone
Dunes are often the first line of defence when powerful ... The model, generated by ABC News using hundreds of images captured from a drone, shows cliffs of sand more than 2 metres high in some ...
Drone survey reveals massive sand loss from Northland’s Mangawhai sandspit
Huge quantities of sand have disappeared from the protective barrier sandspit that protects the Northland township of ...
Mangawhai spit loses massive quantities of sand - aerial survey finds
An estimated equivalent of 26,000 truckloads of sand has been lost in six years, according to a new aerial drone survey.
National Geographic news4y
Sailing the Dunes
This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...
The Conversation23d
Beloved beaches were washed offshore by Cyclone Alfred – but most of this sand will return
But sand dunes will take longer ... get up-to-date weather and wave forecasts on our phones and use drones to see change on beaches and dunes. But these technologies only work if we use them.
Phys.org23d
Beloved beaches were washed offshore by Cyclone Alfred—but most of this sand will return
But sand dunes will take longer ... get up-to-date weather and wave forecasts on our phones and use drones to see change on beaches and dunes. But these technologies only work if we use them.