This session will present the topic MONCOSTA: National Coastal Monitoring Network . The presenter will be Idania Briceño , a geographer from the University of Los Andes in Venezuela, who holds a master's degree in Remote Sensing from the Universidad Mayor in Chile, where she is a tenured professor, and is a PhD candidate in Geomatics at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

During the talk, the MONCOSTA project will be presented, which has developed a set of technological and scientific solutions that strengthen integrated coastal management and improve the capacity to adapt to current and future environmental challenges.

Key achievements include the development of interactive web mapping platforms designed for visualizing and accessing geospatial information related to coastal dynamics. This platform integrates time series of reconstructed coastlines dating back to 1985, erosion and accretion rates, oceanographic variables, and products derived from geomorphological analyses, providing strategic information for regional governments, municipalities, public agencies, and decision-makers. Its implementation contributes to improving land-use planning, coastal zone management, and disaster risk management in areas historically limited by a lack of continuous monitoring.

As a significant technological contribution, the project developed the CoastGauge software, designed for the quantitative analysis of coastal dynamics; the CoastCast dashboard, for non-expert users to estimate critical areas; and the MONCOSTA-Extract algorithm, which automates the extraction of coastlines from large volumes of satellite imagery. These tools have enabled the optimization of geospatial data processing and the generation of high-resolution historical data series.

Furthermore, the incorporation of citizen science initiatives such as CoastSnap has strengthened the participation of local communities in the generation of coastal information, promoting the social appropriation of knowledge and the validation of products derived from remote sensors.