Monitoring Rubble-Mound Coastal Structures With Photogrammetry

Abstract

Monitoring coastal projects usually involves repeated surveys of coastal structures and/or beach profiles. When a coastal structure such as a jetty is protected with concrete armor units or quarrystone, monitoring the movement of individual units may be difficult, if not impossible, by conventional survey methods. Photogrammetric techniques, however, can be used to get precise measurements from properly acquired aerial photographs. When the structure is photographed at low tide, an accurate, permanent record of all visible armor units can be obtained, which record can then be analyzed or "surveyed" with stereoscopic photogrammetric compilation instruments to reveal any movement of the units.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA594261

Entities

Organizations

  • Coastal Engineering Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aerial Photographs
  • Aerial Photography
  • Aircrafts
  • Cameras
  • Cartography
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • High Resolution
  • Measurement
  • Monitoring
  • Photogrammetry
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • Remote Sensing

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Geodesy