Objectives

The main objectives of the monitoring program are to:

• Develop a sound understanding of the coastal physical processes.
• Identify areas at risk of erosion or accretion.
• Assess the impacts of coastal and offshore developments in the Dubai coastal zone.
• Improve the calibration and verification of the numerical models used as planning tools.
• Establish a web-based operational real-time monitoring system.
• Contribute to the decision making process.
• Provide the developers, consultants as well as the general public with data at different levels of complexity.