Assessment of drone-based surface flow observations

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1114-1130

  Tauro, Flavia ^a   Petroselli, Andrea ^a   Arcangeletti, Ettore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Large scale particle image velocimetry; Surface flow measurements; Surface hydrology; Unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW VELOCITY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AERIAL PLATFORM; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; QUANTITATIVE INDICES; REMOTE SURFACES; SURFACE FLOW; SURFACE HYDROLOGY;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

AERIAL SURVEY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOW VELOCITY; HYDROLOGY; SURFACE WATER; UNMANNED VEHICLE; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84949294106     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10698     Document Type: Article

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