Abu Dhabi Municipality monitors the tides on the coasts of the emirate

The Abu Dhabi City Municipality has completed the construction of the first coastal tidal monitoring station, as part of an integrated project that includes the construction of 10 stations, which the city planning sector intends to build until the end of this year.

The Acting Executive Director of the Town Planning Sector, Engineer Salah Awad Al-Sarraj, confirmed that the project to build the stations comes within the municipality's initiatives to invest in water resources, and embodies the policy of spatial data management towards the application of best scientific practices.

He said that the project provides monitoring of coastal tides, a vertical reference for all coastal marine engineering works, and a detailed and accurate study of the tidal system and the movement of vertical and horizontal waters.

The Director of the Spatial Data Department in the municipality, Engineer Youssef Al-Marzouki, confirmed that the project monitors the coastal tides around the clock, as the data is monitored every five minutes and is stored at the station and sent in real time to the database in the municipality office to be processed and used in various applications and made available to other parties. The project will provide a unified vertical reference for all dealers in the field of marine and land surveys, and assures the integrity, accuracy and consistency of linking coastal topographic data with the depths and topography of the seabed, to carry out coastal engineering works with ease and accuracy, and to end this duplication resulting from the use of different vertical references, which is difficult to achieve. complete between them.

The provision of tidal data allows the identification of submerged lands in the event of high tide and is important for classifying coastal islands, providing information to produce a flood risk map, as well as providing realistic data through which to identify potential risks from sea level rise, in addition to the possibility of classifying offshore islands and their types. Submerged in high tide and exposed ones.

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