{"id":788354,"date":"2026-10-01T08:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788354\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T08:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:34:09","slug":"drones-and-lasers-map-norfolk-coast-to-tackle-sea-erosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788354\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones and lasers map Norfolk coast to tackle sea erosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Ravindra Jayaratne, a reader in coastal engineering at UEL and a specialist in tsunamis, extreme waves and coastal erosion, is helping to gather the data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is one of the largest and [most] dynamic ecosystems in the north-west of Europe,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We can certainly try to see how we can reduce the coast erosion as well as the coastal flooding in terms of what are the counter measures&#8230; we want to recommend for the future of the climate scenarios.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liberal Democrat councillor Harry Blathwayt, portfolio holder for coast for North Norfolk District Council, said: &#8220;The sea is rising all the time and we&#8217;ve got to be putting in these interventions and natural intervention takes longer, needs patience, needs some sort of long-term plan&#8230; but yes, let&#8217;s do it now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do you have a story suggestion for Norfolk? Contact us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Ravindra Jayaratne, a reader in coastal engineering at UEL and a specialist in tsunamis, extreme waves and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-788354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}