Conception of monitoring of cliff shores

Cliff shores are those objects which due to their dynamics should be subject to periodic measurements in order to determine their displacement. These measurements need to be cyclically performed in an established time interval according to specific criteria. In this article, the methodology developed to monitor cliff shores is presented, which defines the rules to carry out measurements and the manner of data processing aimed at building the Digital Cliff Model. A number of partial investigations, whose results were published in the studies by (Suchocki et al. 2008, Suchocki 2009a, Suchocki 2009b, Suchocki and Wasilewski 2009a, Suchocki and Wasilewski 2009b, Suchocki 2010, Suchocki and Wasilewski 2010) were performed to develop this methodology. This paper constitutes a summary of several years’ research, whose effect is an extensive methodology developed to monitor cliff shores with an application of terrestrial laser scanning technology.