Proposal: Using Remote Sensing and GIS to Detect Shoreline Change Student: Professor: Course title: Date: Proposal: Using Remote Sensing and GIS to Detect Shoreline Change Introduction Bubiyan Island is situated at the head of the Persian Gulf. This island is owned by Kuwait and is actually the biggest of a group of 8 islands situated southwest of the mouth of river Shatt Al-Arab that separates Iran and Iraq (Gray, 2011). Bubiyan is roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) long and 24 kilometers (15 miles) wide covering an area of 863 square kilometers (333 square miles) (Khalaf and Al-Awadhi 2012). Bubiyan Island’s topography is low and flat. Marshes of salt run virtually the whole length of Bubiyan’s coastline and the northwest coast is very much indented swampland (Ahmadi, 2008). At the center of this island are intermittent wadis. The Ottoman Turks established a storehouse in the year 1902 close to Cape Al-Qayd, Bubiyan’s easternmost section, although it was later on deserted. For a long time, Iraq has maintained a claim to this island (O`Sullivan, 2009). The sediments and waters in Bubiyan are fed from the Euphrates River and Tigris River which pour into the Gulf through the Shat al Arab channel (Ramadan, Al-Nasrallah and Gregory 2010). Bubiyan island is a wetland wilderness with plenty of wildlife. It is undoubtedly a very marv