CoastSnap Community Beach Monitoring ToolBox

This toolbox was written by Dr. Mitchell Harley at the University of New South Wales (Australia). Please refer to the publication in Coastal Engineering for further information.

Getting Started

1. Download the CoastSnap Starters Toolkit and unzip contents to your local directory. This directory will be your BASE_PATH (needed for step 3)

2. Download the MATLAB files of this GitHub site to the CoastSnap/Code directory

3. Make sure you have the following Matlab toolkits installed: mapping toolbox, Statistics and ML toolbox, Image processing toolbox and Curve Fitting Toolbox

4. Update the following two files to match your local setup: CSPsetPaths.m and CSPloadPaths.m

Thats all - you should now be up and running

For an indepth tutorial refer to the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al7vq26dlyk

Demo using manly CoastSnap example

Setting up a new CoastSnap station

Setting up a new CoastSnap station requires two steps:

1. In the Images directory, create a copy of create_newsitename_here and rename it to your sitename (e.g. nthnarrabn, manly).

2. In the CoastSnapDB.xlsx (found in the Database folder), create a new tab with the exact name as your sitename above. It is best to copy an existing tab like manly as the structure of this needs to be identical.

Inserting relevant station metadata

To be added

Managing images using the CoastSnap Database

All new images from various the sources (e.g. Instagram, Facebook, Email) are to be saved to the Raw folder for each respective station.

CoastSnap GUI