Coastal Monitors is developing cost-effective methods to remotely monitor coasts around the country. Using conventional imagery, Coastal Monitors provides quantitative and calibrated wave height spectra. This real-time information is required by public safety officials, marine operations, search and rescue personnel, coastal engineers, mariculture operations, military planners and tacticians, harbor and port authorities, ecological research, and recreational ocean users. Additional developments include performing remote bathymetry, obtaining red tide and algal data and supporting coastal erosion and accretion measurements. The Coastal Monitors solution will save lives and money and improve the quality of coastal life.