ABSTRACT
An important challenge in monitoring, planning and evaluating coastal saltmarsh resources in the face of predicted sea level rise (SLR) using numerical modelling is that in some cases, perhaps many, practitioners are at the nexus of potential "scalar mismatch" scenarios in the application of available data. The particular scale mismatch scenarios highlighted here are in reference to a widely employed numerical modelling and visualisation system known as Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM). In SLAMM, the chapter identifies scale mismatch as a serious challenge in interpreting model results due to imprecise and/or inappropriate scales/resolutions in the remotely sensed data used as model input for resolving the Cove River saltmarsh responses to SLR. With newly developed expertise in micro Unmanned Aerial Systems (µUAS) flight planning and execution, together with Structure from Motion image/map mosaic and 3D model production, he intends on routinely monitoring the Cove River marsh in future seasons.
