Multisensor environmental monitoring update of Savannah River Site Wetlands

Journal Article · Tue Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1996 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society

OSTI ID:436802

Mackey, Jr, H E ^[1]; Cristel, L ^[2]; Jensen, Jr, J R ^[3]

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1. Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC (United States)
2. EG&G Energy Measurements, Las Vegas, NV (United States)
3. Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)

The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a U.S. Department of Energy facility that encompasses an area of {approximately}777 km{sup 2} (300 miles) near Aiken, South Carolina. SRS has been in use since the early 1950s in support of nuclear materials production. Five nuclear reactors, a coal-fired power plant, and extensive support facilities are present on the site. SRS has conducted, almost annually, multisensor surveys of one type or another since 1981 in support of various environmental assessment and monitoring programs at the site, especially as related to reactor operations and potential effects on wetlands, i.e., streams, swamps, and cooling lakes that received thermal effluents. These applications ranged from (a) thermal plume mapping and model verification in the Savannah River and two cooling lakes, Par Pond and L Lake, through the use of airborne multispectral scanner data (thermal channels) or dye dispersion studies (visible channels) to (b) both seasonal and annual monitoring of wetlands vegetation patterns and recovery with satellite and airborne multispectral scanner (MSS) systems. These wetlands surveys provide baseline and change detection maps for the projection of changes in either naturally recovering wetlands environments or at remediation sites.

• OSTI ID: 436802
• Report Number(s): CONF-9606116--
• Journal Information: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Vol. 74; ISSN 0003-018X; ISSN TANSAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
LAKES
MONITORING
SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT
SWAMPS
THERMAL EFFLUENTS
WASTE DISPOSAL
WETLANDS