4-6 May, 2021
The Energy & Environment Institute and international partners hosted this three-day theoretical and technical workshop, addressing non-contact surface velocity methods for the determination of river and floodplain flows.
View recorded presentations via the workshop youtube playlist
The event was co-organised by:
University of Hull
University of Sheffield
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
With the support of: :
The International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR)
The UK Fluids Network
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) HydroHub
Topics covered during the three-day workshop series include:
• Camera based methods • Radar methods • Acoustic methods • Thermal imaging • Drone based methods • Velocimetry using satellite imagery and earth observation • In-channel and floodplain hydrodynamics • Software tools and data processing • Site considerations and site selection • Practicalities and legalities of drone flying • Uncertainty and verification in results • Innovation to improve results and overcome practical limitations
Over 400 global experts and experienced practitioners attended the workshop sessions to to share their knowledge through presentations, training and discussions. The final day focused on innovation, and overcoming limitations with these methods.
It is hoped that the workshop will become an annual event. Please check back on this page for news of future plans.
You can choose to browse the workshop playlist on the Energy & Environment Institute’s youtube channel, or select individual sessions from the list below:
Aleixo - Surface velocity measurements in a jet dissipation basin
Annor - Operational Discharge Monitoring with OPenRiverCam in Low Resource Settings.
Baas - LSPIV of Wind-Blown Sand Streamers on a Beach
Biggs - A stereo camera equipped drone
Biron & Duguay - Improving our understanding of turbulent flow structures in rivers with large-scale PIV
Bomhof - Preliminary Comparison of Image Velocimetry Software and Methods
Castaings - Operationalisation of camera-based velocimetry techniques: feedback and challenges
Cowen - Quantitative Image Velocimetry Measurements of Turbulence Metrics in Surface Waters: Going Beyond Mean Flow
Eltner - River reach mapping with UAVs
Fujita - History of SV at Fujita Lab
Garcia - Assessment of a velocimetry images method as support for the management of a highly polluted basin
Hauet - LSPIV for mapping velocity near a dam
Higham – ‘Flowonthego' - flow tracking technology on your smartphone
Ho - Application of CNN Method to Estimate Open Channel Flow Velocity and Discharge
Johnson - Inferring flow dynamics from remotely sensed eddies'
Johnson MD - Application of Machine Learning to recover surface parameters from phaseless scattered acoustic data
Johnson, Blair - Experimental investigation using surface particle image velocimetry for measuring volumetric discharge in an open channel
Jolley - Image velocimetry for determining flow in river channels: a review
Kalaitzis - Water monitoring with Very High Resolution satellite imagery from the Planet Labs constellation
McDonald - A simple Smartphone based Surface Velocity solution
Muraro - Coupled hydrodynamics-free surface measurements of a flow over bars
Pena-Haro - Extracting information from the temporal evolution of the surface velocity distribution
Randall - Australian Guidelines for SV methods
Raquib - Understanding floating plastics transport using surface velocimetry
Schweitzer - Infrared Quantitative Image Velocimetry (IR-QIV) measurements of instantaneous surface velocity at field scales
Smart - A software tool for surface alpha determination
Sommer - How to measure discharge in flood conditions and how to get the peak information during flood events
Stoesser - Water surface boils in open-channel flows - what lies beneath
Thomas - Application of surface PTV to very shallow flows in experimental braided rivers
Trieu - Photogrammetry for free surface flow velocity measurement: from laboratory to field measurements
Wu - Optical measurement of 3D surface fluctuation in partially filled pipe
PICO Session from the International Surface Velocimetry Workshop 2021, featuring Dolcetti, Zandonadi Moura, Sommer, Schnauder, Dolcetti, Bodart, Ferreira
Hauet - Training/demo: Data processing Fudaa LSPIV
Randall - Training/demo: Data processing HydroSTIV
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