In-line laser holography and video analysis of eroded floc from engineered and estuarine sediments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 4640-4648

  Perkins, Rupert G ^a   Sun, Hongyue ^b   Watson, John ^b   Player, Mike A ^b   Gust, Giselher ^c   Paterson, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IN-LINE LASER HOLOGRAPHY; MICROPHYTOBENTHIC POLYMERS; PARTICLE DEPOSITION; SEDIMENT EROSION;

BIOMASS; DEPOSITION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER APPLICATIONS; POLYMER BLENDS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

HOLOGRAPHY;

POLYMER;

ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; FLOC; HOLOGRAPHY; PARTICLE DEPOSITION VELOCITY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

COHESIVE SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION VELOCITY; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; HOLOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; ESTUARY; HOLOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROCESS MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VIDEORECORDING;

COLLOIDS; FLOCCULATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOLOGRAPHY; LASERS; PARTICLE SIZE; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

ALGAE;

EID: 4444298755     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es040011i     Document Type: Article

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