On the use of unmanned aerial systems for environmental monitoring

S Manfreda, MF McCabe, PE Miller, R Lucas… - Remote sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Environmental monitoring plays a central role in diagnosing climate and management
impacts on natural and agricultural systems; enhancing the understanding of hydrological …

Considerations when applying large-scale PIV and PTV for determining river flow velocity

MJ Jolley, AJ Russell, PF Quinn, MT Perks - Frontiers in Water, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Large-scale image velocimetry is a novel approach for non-contact remote sensing of flow in
rivers. Research within this topic has largely focussed on develo** specific aspects of the …

Command of active matter by topological defects and patterns

C Peng, T Turiv, Y Guo, QH Wei, OD Lavrentovich - Science, 2016 - science.org
Self-propelled bacteria are marvels of nature with a potential to power dynamic materials
and microsystems of the future. The challenge lies in commanding their chaotic behavior. By …

Rectification of Image Velocity Results (RIVeR): A simple and user-friendly toolbox for large scale water surface Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Particle Tracking …

A Patalano, CM García, A Rodríguez - Computers & Geosciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract LSPIV (Large Scale Particle Image Velocimetry) and LSPTV (Large Scale Particle
Tracking Velocimetry) are used as relatively low-cost and non-intrusive techniques for water …

[HTML][HTML] Flow velocity and discharge measurement in rivers using terrestrial and unmanned-aerial-vehicle imagery

A Eltner, H Sardemann… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
An automatic workflow to measure surface flow velocities in rivers is introduced, including a
Python tool. The method is based on particle-tracking velocimetry (PTV) and comprises an …

Higher order multi-frame particle tracking velocimetry

C Cierpka, B Lütke, CJ Kähler - Experiments in Fluids, 2013 - Springer
Particle tracking velocimetry methods (PTV) have a great potential to enhance the spatial
resolution compared to spatial correlation-based methods (PIV). In addition, they are not …

Towards harmonization of image velocimetry techniques for river surface velocity observations

MT Perks, SF Dal Sasso, A Hauet… - Earth System …, 2019 - essd.copernicus.org
Since the turn of the 21st Century, image based velocimetry techniques have become an
increasingly popular approach for determining open-channel flow in a range of hydrological …

Streamflow observations from cameras: Large‐scale particle image velocimetry or particle tracking velocimetry?

F Tauro, R Piscopia, S Grimaldi - Water Resources Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Image‐based methodologies, such as large scale particle image velocimetry (LSPIV) and
particle tracking velocimetry (PTV), have increased our ability to noninvasively conduct …

Morphological adaptation of river channels to vegetation establishment: A laboratory study

A Vargas‐Luna, G Duró, A Crosato… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
While the scientific community has long recognized that alluvial rivers are the product of
interactions between flowing water and bed material transport, it is increasingly evident that …

Optical tracking velocimetry (OTV): Leveraging optical flow and trajectory-based filtering for surface streamflow observations

F Tauro, F Tosi, S Mattoccia, E Toth, R Piscopia… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Nonintrusive image-based methods have the potential to advance hydrological streamflow
observations by providing spatially distributed data at high temporal resolution. Due to their …