Water surface and bottom boundary layer measurements and analyses are presented. These form a protocol to characterize wind driven surface gravity waves in shallow water near shorelines or in shallow open coastal waters and fluid mud movement in a bottom moving lutocline. Synthetic images predict wave patches and their energy (watts m~(-2)). Space-time video imagery collected at ~10 to 120 frames per second, hyperspectral imagery, wave gauges and line targets are presented. The scientific methods have applications related to management of coastal lagoons, estuaries, near coastal waters. Applications in coastal engineering such as wind farms, protection of structures (canals, seawalls, docks) and vegetated shorelines can benefit from improved understanding of wind driven gravity waves. Associated fluid mud movement in the bottom boundary layer is demonstrated.
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