Visual interpretation of pictorial data and reconnaissance survey to extract information on Kuwait’s coastal landscape

Abstract

<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family: " times="" new="" roman","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-gb;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:hi"="" lang="EN-GB">Visual interpretation is an effective tool in extracting the information to understand the coastal evolution from the action of humans and by mediating the negative consequences of Land Use Land Cover Changes (LULCC). Present study describes and portrays an approach to capture the changes in the visual character of the coastal morphological landscape in Kuwait over the period through interpretation of real time data. It reveals considerable detail on the nature and distribution of coastal habitats in the area of interest. The output of this research states that the evolution of physical geography and the coastal morphological landscape (CML), mainly from anthropogenic activities.</span>