The data of the project can be downloaded for free. For technical reasons, a user account is needed. You are not obliged to collect data yourself to be able to download the data.

The following steps can be carried out here. For questions, send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Click on “Login” to login or register. If you already have an account for a citizen science project on the Spotteron platform, you can use this account to login.

For a general overview of the CoastSnap project, please refer to the following publication that was published in a special issue on community outreach initiatives in the scientific journal Continental Shelf Research:

Harley, M.D. and Kinsela, M. (2022) CoastSnap: A global citizen science program to monitor changing coastlines, Continental Shelf Research, 245, 104795, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2022.104796

For more specific technical details about how CoastSnap images can be used by scientists and engineers to map shoreline change, please refer to:

Harley, M.D., Kinsela, M., Sánchez-García, E. and Vos, K. (2019) Shoreline change mapping using crowd-sourced smartphone images, Coastal Engineering, 150, 175-189, https://doi:10.1016/j.coastaleng.2019.04.003

Please see the drop down menus above for various options to download CoastSnap data

CoastSnap is installed in ten different locations around Port Phillip Bay

Check out the latest CoastSnaps provided by our community scientists at the ten monitoring stations around Port Phillip Bay! If you wish to browse the complete record of snaps at each site, simply click on one of the snaps and it will take you to the CoastSnap map.

Check out the latest timelapse movies provided by our community scientists at the ten monitoring stations around Port Phillip Bay!

We have reached 80,000 CoastSnaps! Thank you to everyone for your ongoing participation in helping to track changing coastlines!

Check out the latest timelapse movies provided by our community scientists at the five monitoring stations in Douglas Shire!

Check out the latest CoastSnaps provided by our community scientists at the five monitoring stations in Douglas Shire! If you wish to browse the complete record of snaps at each site, simply click on one of the snaps and it will take you to the CoastSnap map.

CoastSnap is installed in five different locations within Douglas Shire.