Open AccessSYSTEMATIC MEASUREMENTS ALONG THE DUTCH COAST
Author(s) -
T. Edelman
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v10.29
Subject(s) - series (stratigraphy) , computer science , geography , data science , history , geology , paleontology
Since more than a century some features of the Dutch beach have been measured systematically* Some characteristics of the coast, which could be derived from these valuable series of data, are discussed in this paper. Since 1963 a new and largely extended program of measurements has been established, that will produce, every year, more than one million of numbers. It is hardly possible to handle such a huge quantity of data in the conventional manner; mechanical handling by means of modern computers becomes necessary. A short description is given how this is done and how it will perhaps be done in the near future.