Robot-Assisted Measurement for Hydrologic Understanding in Data Sparse Regions
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Sites
2.2. Tank Structures
2.3. Robot-Assisted Data Collection
2.4. Tank Data-Fusion Processing and Calculations
2.5. Validation of Topographic and Bathymetric Measurements
3. Field Investigations
3.1. UAV Deployments
3.2. USV Deployments
4. Results and Analyses
4.1. Tank Stage-Storage Relationship
4.2. Area-Storage Relationship
4.3. Validation of Robot-Assisted Measurements
5. Discussion
5.1. Viability of Small Robots for Surface Data Collection
5.2. Informing Hydrologic Analyses in the Arkavathy Basin
6. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Site | Date | Time | Duration | Altitude | Usable Images Collected |
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66emHadonahalli | 14 July 2015 | 08:44 a.m. | 11 min | 50 m | 244 |
14 July 2015 | 09:19 a.m. | 10 min | 45 m | 214 | |
14 July 2015 | 09:52 a.m. | 10 min | 35 m | 218 | |
14 July 2015 | 10:20 a.m. | 10 min | 40 m | 204 | |
14 July 2015 | 10:40 a.m. | 6 min | 40 m | 124 | |
14 July 2015 | 11:00 a.m. | 5 min | 40 m | 118 | |
56emSM Gollahalli | 3 July 2015 | 08:16 a.m. | 14 min | 30 m | 268 |
3 July 2015 | 08:33 a.m. | 15 min | 40 m | 182 | |
3 July 2015 | 05:59 a.m. | 10 min | 40 m | 186 | |
3 July 2015 | 09:13 a.m. | 9 min | 40 m | 178 | |
3 July 2015 | 09:25 a.m. | 10 min | 40 m | 213 |
Tank | ||
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Hadonahalli | 0.997 | |
SM Gollahalli | 0.994 |
Site | Mean Absolute Error | Standard Deviation | RMSE | Volume Estimation Error |
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Hadonahalli | 0.833 m | 0.771 m | 1.13 m | 14.5% |
SM Gollahalli | 0.617 m | 0.601 m | 0.862 m | 14.9% |
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Young, S.; Peschel, J.; Penny, G.; Thompson, S.; Srinivasan, V. Robot-Assisted Measurement for Hydrologic Understanding in Data Sparse Regions. Water 2017, 9, 494. https://doi.org/10.3390/w9070494
Young S, Peschel J, Penny G, Thompson S, Srinivasan V. Robot-Assisted Measurement for Hydrologic Understanding in Data Sparse Regions. Water. 2017; 9(7):494. https://doi.org/10.3390/w9070494
Chicago/Turabian StyleYoung, Sierra, Joshua Peschel, Gopal Penny, Sally Thompson, and Veena Srinivasan. 2017. "Robot-Assisted Measurement for Hydrologic Understanding in Data Sparse Regions" Water 9, no. 7: 494. https://doi.org/10.3390/w9070494