The PLUme MEasurement System (PLUMES): A Commercially Available System

Abstract

This technical note describes a commercially available field data collection system that can measure suspended sediment concentrations and currents at dredging operations site. During dredging and dredged material disposal operations clouds or plumes of suspended sediment are produced at the sites of these operations. The temporal and spatial distribution of turbidity from these plumes, and the fate of the suspended sediment in them, are important environmental concerns. PLUMES was developed to obtain measurements that provide quantitative information on these factors

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA282778

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Measurement
  • Backscattering
  • Boats
  • Deep Water
  • Dredging
  • Frequency
  • Grain Size
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Particles
  • Scattering
  • Sediments
  • Shallow Water
  • Spatial Distribution
  • Suspended Sediments
  • Towed Bodies
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Riverine Ecology
  • Systems Analysis and Design