SANDS is a sophisticated coastal data capture, monitoring and analysis suite developed for shoreline managers, coastal engineers and environmental scientists. The system provides a powerful facility through which input data can be analysed to establish links between forcing and response. It also allows weather and shore condition data to be entered, stored, inspected and compared. By analysing means and trends of both climatic and beach profile data, trends in coastal response can be detected. It is also capable of storing, retrieving and analysing a wide range of environmental data, reports and records.

SANDS plays a major role in numerous projects both internally within Halcrow and externally by SANDS users. Users include local authorities and government agencies. In addition to project use, SANDS has the ability to be used as an educational tool.

SANDS is developed by Halcrow and we can thus customise the software to meet specific user needs if required. Any specific additions to SANDS can be discussed with the development team. Common examples of ‘customisations’ include client specific inspection forms and additional analysis functions.

For more information contact Michael Stickley or Sean Palmer on +44(0)1793 812479 or .

• Coastal data storage
• Erosion and accretion analysis
• Beach and structure inspection reports
• Area and volumetric analysis
• Tidal analysis and prediction
• Wind/wave extremes analysis
• Wave transformation
• Sediment transport
  

Mapping

• Attach data to polygons or location markers (eg for timeseries)
• Overlays
• Range of spatial data formats
• Visualise data locations
• Interactively select data from the map for analysis

Beach Profile Analysis

• Relates beach profiles to a ‘master profile’ (eg underlying rock material)
• Calculate cross-sectional areas in relation to the ‘master profile’.
• Trend line analysis

Diary

• Range of survey inventory forms
• Store and monitor ecological surveys data
• Monitor changes over time Profile

Volumetric Analysis

• Group profile surveys to form ‘Coastal Process Units’.
• Various volumetric analyses performed on the process units.
• Statistical routines to analyse climatic and beach profile data providing trends in beach steepening/slackening and annual or seasonal accretion/recession

Timeseries Analysis

• Graphing, checking and editing of time series data
• Analysis of time series data, eg tidal prediction, tidal harmonic analysis, joint probability analysis, extremes analysis, storm analysis, wave energy analysis, drift rate analysis and transform offshore wave data to inshore locations.
• Converting wave and water level data into energies at a specific zone of shoreline and compare with surveyed beach response
  

• Environment Agency, Southern Region
• Arun District Council
• Blackpool Borough Council
• Bournemouth Borough Council
• Brighton & Hove Council
• Canterbury City Council
• Dover District Council
• Gosport Borough Council
• Havant Borough Council
• Isle of Wight Council
• Kerrier District Council
• Lancaster City Council
• New Forest District Council
• Poole Borough Council
• Shepway District Council
  

• Suffolk Coastal District Council
• Waveney District Council

... and many more