· Coastal engineering works, flood management and erosion monitoring
· LiDAR is especially useful for coastal areas as these are generally inaccessible and featureless terrain. While being inaccessible prohibits land surveying or GPS survey the featureless terrain restricts use of photogrammetry due to absence of GCPs.
· The coastal landform mapping, e.g., mapping of tidal channels and other morphological features is possible by employing LiDAR data for change detection studies.