Monitoring suspended sediment dynamics using MBES

Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-49

  Simmons, Stephen M ^a   Parsons, Daniel R ^a   Best, James L ^b   Orfeo, Oscar ^c   Lane, Stuart N ^d   Kostaschuk, Ray ^e   Hardy, Richard J ^d   West, Geraint ^f   Malzone, Chris ^g   Marcus, Jon ^h   Pocwiardowski, Pawel ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Centro de Ecologia Aplicada del Littoral   (Argentina)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^f NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^g Myriax Software Pty Ltd   (United States)

^h RESON Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic backscatter; Fluid mixing; Multibeam echo sonar; Sediment transport; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER; FLUID MIXING; MULTI-BEAM; MULTIBEAM ECHO SONAR; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; CASE-STUDIES; MULTI-BEAM ECHO SOUNDERS; MULTIBEAMS; OPEN CHANNELS; SEDIMENT DYNAMIC; TECHNICAL NOTES; WATER COLUMNS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; SONAR; TURBIDITY; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; MIXING; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; SONAR;

BACKSCATTER; CALIBRATION; CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; CONFLUENCE; ECHO SOUNDER; MONITORING SYSTEM; MULTIBEAM SONAR; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY; TURBULENT MIXING; WATER COLUMN;

ARGENTINA; PARAGUAY RIVER; PARANA RIVER;

EID: 77949815095     PISSN: 07339429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0000110     Document Type: Article

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