Field assessment of noncontact stream gauging using portable surface velocity radars (SVR)

Water Resources Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 1108-1126

  Welber, Matilde ^a   Le Coz, Jérôme ^b   Laronne, Jonathan B ^c   Zolezzi, Guido ^a   Zamler, Daniel ^c   Dramais, Guillaume ^b   Hauet, Alexandre ^d   Salvaro, Martino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b CENTRE DE LYON VILLEURBANNE   (France)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

flow monitoring; noncontact velocimetry; stream gauging; uncertainty assessment

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; FLOODS; RADAR; VELOCITY;

FIELD-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; FLOW MONITORING; NON-CONTACT; SITE SPECIFIC CALIBRATION; STREAM GAUGING; THEORETICAL VALUES; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT; VELOCITY COEFFICIENTS;

BUOYANCY;

CALIBRATION; CROSS SECTION; FIELD SURVEY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW VELOCITY; GAUGE; RADAR; RATING CURVE; STREAM CHANNEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER DEPTH;

EID: 84975705419     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017906     Document Type: Article

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