Coastline Erosion Study via UAV Drone Remote Sensing Using Python Modelling Electrical Resistivity Imaging (PyMERI)

In this work, the main goal is to study the evolution of the coastline at a local scale, and to get a better understanding of the erosion process. We propose a methodology based on a new software (PyMERI) in order to build a 3D mesh of the subsoil from a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) on which a Partial Differential Equation-direct problem-allowing to recover the voltage (electrical field) in the ground is solved yielding numerical simulations of Electrical Resistivity Imaging (ERI). This study is complemented by the resolution of an inverse problem of ERI for which, unlike the direct problem, the conductivity is now the searched quantity, and by the introduction of a segmentation approach to segment faults on images.