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Título
An open surface drifter for river flow field characterization
Año del Documento
2022
Editorial
MDPI
Descripción
Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
Sensors, 2022, Vol. 22, Nº. 24, 9918
Zusammenfassung
The continuous observation of flows is required to assess a river’s ecological status, to allocate irrigation withdrawals, to provide sustainable hydropower production and to plan actions as well as develop adaptive management plans. Drifters have the potential of facilitating the monitoring and modeling of river behavior at a fraction of traditional monitoring costs. They are floating objects equipped with sensors able to passively follow the movements of water. During their travel, they collect and transmit information about their movement and their surrounding environment. In this paper, we present and assess a low-cost (<150 EUR) customizable drifter developed with off-the-shelf components. The open drifter is capable of handling the majority of use cases defined in the specialized literature and in addition it offers a general river flow characterization toolkit. One of the main goals of this work is to establish an open hardware and software basis to increase the use of drifters in river studies. Results show that the proposed drifter provides reliable surface velocity estimates when compared to a commercial flow meter, offering a lower cost per data point and in contrast to traditional point measurements it can be used to identify and classify large-scale surface flow patterns. The diverse sensor payload of the open drifter presented in this work makes it a new and unique tool for autonomous river characterization.
Materias (normalizadas)
Global Positioning System
Satélites artificiales en las Telecomunicaciones
Navegación - Comunicación, Sistemas de
Global system for mobile communications
Comunicaciones móviles
Digital communications
Wireless communication systems
Mobile communication systems
Sistemas de telefonía móvil
Comunicación y tecnología
Rivers
Cursos de agua
Wireless sensor networks
Redes de sensores inalámbricos
Materias Unesco
3102 Ingeniería Agrícola
3325 Tecnología de las Telecomunicaciones
1203.25 Diseño de Sistemas Sensores
Palabras Clave
Open hardware
River drifter
ISSN
1424-8220
Revisión por pares
SI
Patrocinador
Unión Europea - (project LIFE18 NAT/ES/000121)
European Union’s Horizon 2020 (Grant 101032024)
Centro de Excelencia en TI de Estonia y Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) - (grant 2014-2020.4.01.15-0018)
European Economic Area (EEA) Financial Mechanism 2014–2021 - (project EMP480)
European Union’s Horizon 2020 (Grant 101032024)
Centro de Excelencia en TI de Estonia y Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) - (grant 2014-2020.4.01.15-0018)
European Economic Area (EEA) Financial Mechanism 2014–2021 - (project EMP480)
Version del Editor
Propietario de los Derechos
© 2022 The Authors
Idioma
eng
Tipo de versión
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Derechos
openAccess
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