Development of automated extraction of reservoir pre-impoundment surfaces from acoustic echosounder data

Start Date: 2010

End Date: 2010

Full Citation:

Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project, 2010–2011, $28,556. Development of automated extraction of reservoir pre-impoundment surfaces from acoustic echosounder data. PI: M. Jakubauskas. Co-PI: J. Kastens.

Associated with the KU Field Station: No

Research Summary:

This research concentrated on developing a numerical method to automatically extract reservoir pre-impoundment surfaces by using multi-frequency acoustic data. This process could be applied to acoustic echosounder data of a reservoir to provide a dense network of georeferenced sediment thickness measurements. This research development would be a replicable, objective means for quantifying sediment thickness in inland reservoirs at thousands of georeferenced points across a given reservoir. In turn, the outcome would permit accurate quantifications of sediment thicknesses, sedimentation patterns, and sedimentation rates of inland reservoirs at a lower cost compared to other approaches.