Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Bed Load with Drifted Hydrophone
Publication: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Volume 149, Issue 7
Abstract
Recent studies have shown that bed load can be monitored with passive acoustic techniques, which consist of measuring the noise generated by the particles impacting the riverbed and converting this measured noise into a sediment flux. The technique still faces the difficulty that each environment has its own acoustic properties and that calibration is needed when operating from a river bank. However, recent work with an extensive field campaign in a large variety of rivers has shown that when measuring as close as possible to the noise sources by attaching a hydrophone to a floating board, the relation between acoustic power and local bed load flux can be described by a unique intersite power function. In this paper, we present the measurement protocol and validation based on a new field campaign comprising 17 measurements on eight rivers. The validation results show that the acoustic method successfully predicts bed load flux within a factor of 3 for more than 70% of the measurements.
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Data Availability Statement
All data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. Bed load flux measurements, acoustic measurements, and recordings samples for each river are uploaded to https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/ddfgdxtrpm [Nasr et al. (2021), “Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Bedload with Drifted Hydrophone,” Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/ddfgdxtrpm.1].
Acknowledgments
This work has been supported mainly by doctoral studies funding from a convention between Electricité de France (EDF), Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement (INRAE) and GINGER-Burgeap, also additional subsidies from OSUG (Labex, OSUG@2020). The authors are thankful to G. Piasny and L. Schmitt for their data of measurements on the Moselle River.
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Volume 149 • Issue 7 • July 2023
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Received: Jul 28, 2022
Accepted: Feb 4, 2023
Published online: Apr 22, 2023
Published in print: Jul 1, 2023
Discussion open until: Sep 22, 2023
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