During recent years, Iranian coasts have been home to a variety of activities such as recreational, fishery, commercial and oil-related. Understandably, civil engineering constructions along the shoreline have dramatically mounted.

In the other hand, further identification of social, recreational and environmental potentialities of the coastal areas is expected to give rise to innovative activities in a greater scale therein.

Making an optimum use of these vast areas implies a comprehensive planning and appropriate management. Complexities of the interaction between land and sea stemming from their characteristic nature and behavior plus human interference in utilization of existing resources there have made it difficult to draw a comprehensive plan. A key factor in the pursuit of the above objective is a ready access to adequate information on the hydrodynamic and sedimentation regime of the region and a clear understanding of the geomorphologic changes brought about by different factors. Due to a lack of reliable data, the above information is typically scarce.  

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