Energy and Environment Institute Our story Our work Our people Contact us More Back On-going projects International Surface Velocimetry Workshop 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. Recorded presentations from the International Surface Velocimetry Workshop 2021 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 Dolcetti - Space-Time Surface Doppler Velocimetry: A proof of concept 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 Other on-going research projects View all projects On-going project INSECURE – Capturing Intergenerational Narratives of Coastal Change Understanding lived experiences of children and young people in the face of coastal change. 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