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International Journal of Geosciences, 2011, 2, 523-529 523 doi:10.4236/ijg.2011.24055 Published Online November 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ijg) Changes in the Shoreline Position Caused by Natural Processes for Coastline of Marsa Alam and Hamata, Red Sea, Egypt Khalid Dewidar Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, New Damietta City, Egypt E-mail : khdewidar@ Received June 17, 2011; revised July 26, 2011; accepted September 3, 2011 Abstract The probability of storms and ice-drift events and their impact on coasts is expected to increase as result of climate change. Multi-years shoreline mapping is considered a valuable task for coastal monitoring and as- sessment. This paper presents shoreline maps illustrating the shoreline erosion accretion pattern in the coastal area between Marsa Alam and Hamata of Red Sea coastline by using different sources of remote sensing data. In the present study, Landsat MSS (1972), Landsat TM (1990), Landsat ETM+ (1998, 2000) and Terra Aster (2007) satellite images were used. In this study, two techniques were used to estimate rate of shoreline retreat. The first technique is corresponding to the formation of automated shoreline positions and the second one is for estimating rate of shoreline change based on data of remote sensing applying Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) software. In this study, the End Point Rate (EPR) was calculated by dividing the distance of shoreline movement by the time elapsed between the earliest and latest measurements at each transect. Alongshore rate changes shows that there are changes of erosion and accretion pattern