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- Title
Detection and Mapping of Shipwrecks in Al-Hoceima Coastal Using Remote Sensing.
- Authors
Taher, Morad; Mourabit, Taoufik; Etebaai, Issam; Bourjila, Abdelhak; Errahmouni, Ali; Lamgharbaj, Mustapha
- Abstract
On the Mediterranean coast of Morocco, many military ships were sunk in the Al-Hoceima region during Rif war between Spanish army and the local Riffians. The aim of this study is to detect and to map shipwrecks embedded in sea-floor sediments in Al-Hoceima coastal. It has been carried out using free satellite radar image and the opensource software Sentinel Application Platform. The result of this study shows five possible locations of shipwrecks in the study area, two of them were confirmed by data shipwrecks of the Spanish hydrographic institute.
- Subjects
SHIPWRECKS; REMOTE sensing; MARINE sediments; OPEN source software; RIFS (Berber people); HYDROGRAPHY
- Publication
Ecological Engineering & Environmental Technology (EEET), 2022, Vol 23, Issue 5, p218
- ISSN
2719-7050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12912/27197050/152117