GIS Based Approach for Vulnerability Assessment of the Karnataka Coast, India

Table 1

List of variables and data source.

Variables	Data source	Time period
Sea level change rate	PSMSL (http://www.psmsl.org/)	1976–2004
Shoreline change rate	Earth Explorer (http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/)	1972–2014
Coastal slope	GEBCO (http://www.gebco.net/)	—
Regional elevation	SRTM (http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/)	—
Tidal range	Secondary data	—
Significant wave height	Secondary data	—
Population	Worldpop (http://www.worldpop.org.uk/)	2010