Promise, performance and current limitations of a magnetic bedload movement detector

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1022-1032

  Hassan, Marwan A ^a   Church, Michael ^a   Rempel, Jason ^a,b   Enkin, Randolph J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Rescan Environmental Services   (Canada)

^c Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bedload; Magnetic detection; Particle size; Particle speed; Signal analysis

Indexed keywords

BED-LOAD TRANSPORT; BEDLOAD; CALIBRATED MODEL; CURRENT LIMITATION; FLUME EXPERIMENT; GRAVEL-BED RIVERS; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC DETECTION; MAGNETIC INDUCTION; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SPEED; PARTICLE VOLUME; PHYSICALLY BASED; SEDIMENT FLUX; SENSOR DESIGNS; SENSOR RESPONSE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TRANSPORT DATA;

CURRICULA; EXPERIMENTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRAVEL; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SENSORS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEED;

MAGNETIC BUBBLES;

BEDLOAD; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRAVEL BED STREAM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PARTICLE SIZE; RIVER BED; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 69249211132     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1797     Document Type: Article

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