Radar technology for river flow monitoring: Assessment of the current status and future challenges

Y Huang, H Chen, B Liu, K Huang, Z Wu, K Yan - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
As an emerging non-contact method of flow monitoring, radar technology compensates for
the shortcomings of traditional methods in terms of the efficiency, timeliness, and difficulty in …

UAVs and 3D City Modeling to Aid Urban Planning and Historic Preservation: A Systematic Review

D Hu, J Minner - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Drone imagery has the potential to enrich urban planning and historic preservation,
especially where it converges with the growing creation and use of 3D models in the context …

Sheared turbulent flows and wake dynamics of an idled floating tidal turbine

L Lieber, S Fraser, D Coles… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Ocean energy extraction is on the rise. While tides are the most predictable amongst marine
renewable resources, turbulent and complex flows still challenge reliable tidal stream …

River flow measurements utilizing UAV-based surface velocimetry and bathymetry coupled with sonar

P Koutalakis, GN Zaimes - Hydrology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Water velocity and discharge are essential parameters for monitoring water resources
sustainably. Datasets acquired from Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS) allow for river …

Comparison of dense optical flow and PIV techniques for mapping surface current flow in tidal stream energy sites

J McIlvenny, BJ Williamson, IA Fairley, M Lewis… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Marine renewable energy site and resource characterisation, in particular tidal stream
energy, require detailed flow measurements which often rely on high-cost in situ …

A Review of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Usage as an Environmental Survey Tool within Tidal Stream Environments

J Slingsby, BE Scott, L Kregting, J McIlvenny… - Journal of Marine …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tidal energy is a rapidly developing area of the marine renewable energy sector that
requires converters to be placed within areas of fast current speeds to be commercially …

From PIV to LSPIV: Harnessing deep learning for environmental flow velocimetry

JB Tlhomole, GO Hughes, M Zhang, MD Piggott - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
The inference of velocity fields from the displacement of objects and/or fields visible within a
series of consecutive images over known time intervals has been explored extensively …

[HTML][HTML] Intercomparison of surface velocimetry techniques for drone-based marine current characterization

I Fairley, N King, J McIlvenny, M Lewis, S Neill… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mapping tidal currents is important for a variety of coastal and marine applications. Deriving
current maps from in-situ measurements is difficult due to spatio-temporal separation of …

Matrix-Pencil-Based Waterflow Velocity Detection Method by 24 GHz Millimetre-Wave Radar

Y Tian, S Yi, H Yang, T Li, N Li… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, a waterflow velocity detection method with a 24 GHz millimetre-wave radar is
presented based on a modified matrix-pencil (MP) method to alleviate the issue of stochastic …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing the Marine Energy Test Area (META) in Wales, UK

SP Neill, IA Fairley, S Rowlands, S Young, T Hill… - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
With lack of convergence on any single wave or tidal technology, test centres have a unique
role in the marine renewable energy industry. Test centres facilitate real testing at sea for …