Detection and Mapping of Shipwrecks in Al-Hoceima Coastal Using Remote Sensing
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The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Faculty of Sciences and Technique of Al-Hoceima, The Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tétouan, Morocco
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The Department of Geology, The Faculty of Sciences and Techniques of Tanger, The Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco
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Laboratory of Water and Environmental Engineering, Al Hoceima National School of Applied Sciences, The Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tétouan, Morocco
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The Department of Geology, The Faculty of Sciences of Tétouan, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tétouan, Morocco
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Morad Taher
The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Faculty of Sciences and Technique of Al-Hoceima, The Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tétouan, Morocco
Ecol. Eng. Environ. Technol. 2022; 5:218-223
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On the Mediterranean coast of Morocco, many military ships were sunk in the Al-Hoceima region during the Rif war between the Spanish army and the local Riffians. The aims of this study is to detect and to map shipwrecks embedded in sea-floor sediments in Al-Hoceima coastal. It has been carried out using free satellite radar images and the open-source software Sentinel Application Platform. The result of this study shows five possible locations of shipwrecks in the study area, two of them were confirmed by data shipwrecks of the Spanish hydrographic institute.