Shifting Sands: Tech maps Ga. beaches
Shifting Sands: Tech maps Ga. beaches By Jamie Ertle | December 11, 2020 at 4:57 PM EST - Updated December 11 at 6:35 PM
TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WTOC) - We spent some time on Tybee Island this week, talking to researchers about how the sand has already shifted after the last beach renourishment thatâs not even a year old.
Flying the skies to map the sand below and how it moves and shifts.
âYou can see things like tire marks on the vertical level you have a centimeter resolution as well as on the lateral levelâ
Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Researcher Claudia Venherm is getting the best resolution ever of our shifting sand with her drone, taking thousands of overlapping pictures.