Continuous plume monitoring using wireless sensors: Proof of concept in intermediate scale tank

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 135, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 831-838

  Porta, Lisa ^a,b   Illangasekare, Tissa H ^a   Loden, Philip ^a   Han, Qi ^a   Jayasumana, Anura P ^c  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b CH2M HILL   (United States)

^c Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater pollution; Groundwater quality; Monitoring; Plumes; Probe instruments; Sampling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DATA ACQUISITION; CHEMICAL CONCENTRATIONS; CONDUCTIVITY PROBE; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; CURRENT PRACTICES; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM; DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED MONITORING; DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FIELD IMPLEMENTATION; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; LABORATORY ANALYSIS; LESSONS LEARNED; MONITORING METHODS; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; PLUMES; PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SODIUM BROMIDE; SUBSURFACE DATA; SYNTHETIC AQUIFERS; TEST SYSTEMS; TIME CONSTRAINTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; WATER SAMPLES; WIRELESS SENSOR; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

AQUIFERS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; PROBES; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; SODIUM; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WELLS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

MONITORING;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; AUTOMATION; CALIBRATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LABORATORY METHOD; PLUME; POLLUTION MONITORING; PROBE; SENSOR; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TRACER; WATER QUALITY; WELL WATER;

EID: 69149110873     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0000045     Document Type: Article

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