Potential for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Applications for Identifying Groundwater-Surface Water Exchange in a Meandering River Reach: sUAS in Groundwater-Surface Water Study
Abstract
The exchange of groundwater and surface water (GW-SW), including dissolved constituents and energy, represents a critical yet challenging characterization problem for hydrogeologists and stream ecologists. Here we describe the use of a suite of high spatial resolution remote sensing techniques, collected using a small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS), to provide novel and complementary data to analyze GW-SW exchange. sUAS provided centimeter-scale resolution topography and water surface elevations, which are often drivers of exchange along the river corridor. Additionally, sUAS-based vegetation imagery, vegetation-top elevation, and normalized difference vegetation index mapping indicated GW-SW exchange patterns that are difficult to characterize from the land surface and may not be resolved from coarser satellite-based imagery. We combined these data with estimates of sediment hydraulic conductivity to provide a direct estimate of GW “shortcutting” through meander necks, which was corroborated by temperature data at the riverbed interface.
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- Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States)
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
- U.S. Geological Survey, Storrs, CT (United States)
- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- US Geological Survey, Boulder, CO (United States); U.S. Geological Survey, Storrs, CT (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Contributing Org.:
- the AirCTEMPS Team
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1537303
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- OSTI ID: 1412600; OSTI ID: 1725792
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0016412
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 44; Journal Issue: 23; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Geology; 58 GEOSCIENCES
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Pai, H., Malenda, H. F., Briggs, M. A., Singha, K., González-Pinzón, R., Gooseff, M. N., and Tyler, S. W. Potential for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Applications for Identifying Groundwater-Surface Water Exchange in a Meandering River Reach: sUAS in Groundwater-Surface Water Study. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1002/2017gl075836.
Pai, H., Malenda, H. F., Briggs, M. A., Singha, K., González-Pinzón, R., Gooseff, M. N., & Tyler, S. W. Potential for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Applications for Identifying Groundwater-Surface Water Exchange in a Meandering River Reach: sUAS in Groundwater-Surface Water Study. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl075836
Pai, H., Malenda, H. F., Briggs, M. A., Singha, K., González-Pinzón, R., Gooseff, M. N., and Tyler, S. W. Mon .
"Potential for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Applications for Identifying Groundwater-Surface Water Exchange in a Meandering River Reach: sUAS in Groundwater-Surface Water Study". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl075836. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1537303.
@article{osti_1537303,
title = {Potential for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Applications for Identifying Groundwater-Surface Water Exchange in a Meandering River Reach: sUAS in Groundwater-Surface Water Study},
author = {Pai, H. and Malenda, H. F. and Briggs, M. A. and Singha, K. and González-Pinzón, R. and Gooseff, M. N. and Tyler, S. W.},
abstractNote = {The exchange of groundwater and surface water (GW-SW), including dissolved constituents and energy, represents a critical yet challenging characterization problem for hydrogeologists and stream ecologists. Here we describe the use of a suite of high spatial resolution remote sensing techniques, collected using a small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS), to provide novel and complementary data to analyze GW-SW exchange. sUAS provided centimeter-scale resolution topography and water surface elevations, which are often drivers of exchange along the river corridor. Additionally, sUAS-based vegetation imagery, vegetation-top elevation, and normalized difference vegetation index mapping indicated GW-SW exchange patterns that are difficult to characterize from the land surface and may not be resolved from coarser satellite-based imagery. We combined these data with estimates of sediment hydraulic conductivity to provide a direct estimate of GW “shortcutting” through meander necks, which was corroborated by temperature data at the riverbed interface.},
doi = {10.1002/2017gl075836},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
number = 23,
volume = 44,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 27 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Mon Nov 27 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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