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Authors and Affiliations

1. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99, 03080, Alicante, Spain

   R. Tomás

2. COMET, School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

   Z. Li & A. Singleton

3. Instituto Universitario de Investigación Informática, Universidad de Alicante, P.O. Box 99, 03080, Alicante, Spain

   J. M. Lopez-Sanchez

4. Key Laboratory for Geo-Environment Monitoring of Coastal Zone of the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geo-Information, College of Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China

   P. Liu

Corresponding author

Correspondence to R. Tomás.