Due to the specifics of the Baltic Sea, performing accurate measurements in the coastal zone is not an easy task. For the past decade, topographic laser scanners have been used for the periodic monitoring of the sea’s southern coast in Poland, in addition to profiles using GNSS RTK receivers. This article outlines the work to verify the feasibility and accuracy of using airborne Lidar bathymetry (ALB), both on the seabed and on land.

The southern coast of the Baltic Sea is characterized by great variability. Due to storms, sandy beaches are becoming wider and wider in some places, while in other places they are simply disappearing. The desire to prevent these

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Los datos de las imágenes de los naufragios SS Tiberia y RMS Leinster , presentadas como candidaturas al concurso Kongsberg Discovery Multibeam Image Contest 2023, se obtuvieron durante el mapeo del fondo marino realizado por el Instituto de Agroalimentación y Biociencias (AFBI) en Belfast y por el Instituto Marino Irlandés en colaboración con la Universidad del Ulster, respectivamente. Estos y otros muchos naufragios hablan de la necesidad de un seguimiento continuo, tanto para la preservación del patrimonio como para gestionar los posibles riesgos ambientales.

El concurso de imágenes Kongsberg Discovery se creó en 2014 y está abierto a todos los usuarios profesionales de la

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Globally, surface air and ocean temperatures have warmed by about 1°C since 1900. More than 90% of the additional heat contained in the climate system (atmosphere, ocean, land) due to global warming is stored in the ocean, so what do these increased ocean temperatures mean for our weather?

The ocean stores significantly more heat than the atmosphere: the top few metres of the ocean contain more thermal energy than the entire atmosphere. There is a continuous exchange of heat between the ocean and atmosphere and the weather we experience is intrinsically linked to the heat contained in the ocean.

As atmospheric winds flow over the ocean, they typically pick up moisture and either gain or

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