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The experimental infrastructure was developed to autonomously investigate suspended sediment dynamics in the two channels of the Lido inlet in relation to the longshore currents in the littoral zone and the tidal circulation along the lagoon channel network. It provided time series of turbidity at the surface, water flow and acoustic backscatter, which was converted into turbidity along the vertical column during different tidal phases and meteo-marine conditions. Accurate turbidity maps were derived from Sentinel-2 (Copernicus) and Landsat 8 (NASA) satellites. Long-term in situ data from field surveys enabled the calibration and intercalibration of the instrumental setup and validation of satellite-derived products. Time series from the instrumental network were analyzed in order to evaluate the temporal variability of suspended sediment in relation to tidal phases and the different meteo-marine conditions. The integration of available datasets with satellite images also permitted the testing of the methodology for a 3-D reconstruction of the suspended sediment pattern in calm sea conditions, under the effect of the sole hydrodynamical forcing. Remotely sensed data provide a synoptic distribution of turbidity in the inlet area allowing the analysis of the surficial patterns of suspended sediment and the inferring of information on the transport processes at different spatial scales. In calm sea conditions, the results show that the transport is driven by tidal currents with a net seaward transport related to a larger export of materials from the northern basin of the Lagoon of Venice. During typical northeasterly storms, materials mobilized on the beaches and in the shoreface are transported into the inlet and distributed into the lagoon channel network, following the flood tidal currents and determining net import of materials. The multitude of information provided by this system can support research on aquatic science (i.e., numerical simulations) and address end-user community practices. The ecosystem management will also benefit operational purposes, such as the monitoring of morphological transformations, erosion processes and planning of coastal defense in the future scenarios of sea level rise. The developed approach will also help to understand how the regulation of the inlet flow introduced by the operation of the flood barriers will affect the fluxes of particles and, in the long term, the lagoon morphodynamics.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14143371","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,14]],"date-time":"2022-07-14T00:12:40Z","timestamp":1657757560000},"page":"3371","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Towards an Integrated Observational System to Investigate Sediment Transport in the Tidal Inlets of the Lagoon of Venice"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5061-5607","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gian Marco","family":"Scarpa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Marine Sciences-National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR), Castello 2737\/F, 30122 Venice, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4131-9080","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Federica","family":"Braga","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Marine Sciences-National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR), Castello 2737\/F, 30122 Venice, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6953-3874","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giorgia","family":"Manf\u00e8","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Marine Sciences-National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR), Castello 2737\/F, 30122 Venice, Italy"}]},{"given":"Giuliano","family":"Lorenzetti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Marine Sciences-National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR), Castello 2737\/F, 30122 Venice, Italy"}]},{"given":"Luca","family":"Zaggia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources-National Research Council (CNR-IGG), Via Gradenigo, 6, 35131 Padova, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1209","DOI":"10.1126\/science.278.5341.1209c","article-title":"Estimates of Coastal Populations","volume":"278","author":"Cohen","year":"1997","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"Fletcher, C.A., and Spencer, T. 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