Acoustics have the promise of being able to have a significant impact on our understanding of coastal sedimentary processes, which play such an important role in the dynamics of the coastal and shallow water environment. Due to this, the application of acoustics for remotely measuring suspended sediments, over ranges from metres to tens of metres, is gaining acceptance within the sediment community. This recognition of the use of acoustics to the area of sediment processes is based on advances which have been made decade in the understanding of the interaction of sound with marine suspended sediments, and also due to ongoing field observations which have shown the unique ability of the acoustic technique to measure suspended sediment profiles. In the present work acoustic measurements of suspended sediments have been conducted at 1, 2.5, 3, and 5 MHz in a number of different shallow water environments. The interpretation of the acoustic data to obtain suspended sediment concentration is presented, and some of the difficulties when inverting the acoustic information to obtain the suspended load are considered. Some discussion is also given to future uses of acoustics for studying sediment processes, and how one may utilize the application of underwater sound to manage our coastal environment more effectively.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    On the use of acoustics for measuring shallow water suspended sediment processes


    Additional title:

    Zum Einsatz der Akustik zur Messung des Sedimentierungsprozesses von Schwebstoff im flachen Wasser


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1994


    Size :

    10 Seiten, 15 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




    Suspended load sediment stratified sampling device

    LIU DONG | European Patent Office | 2022

    Free access

    Total Sediment Load Measurement Using Point-Source Suspended-Sediment Data

    Ingram, John J. | HENRY – Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) | 1988

    Free access

    Vertical suspended sediment diffusivity for uniform currents

    Kim, Hyoseob / Jang, Changhwan | Springer Verlag | 2013


    Intra-wave Suspended Sediment Concentrations over Bedforms

    Black, K. / Osborne, P. / Green, M. O. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997


    Monitoring Historic Shoreline Change and Suspended Sediment

    Lisa Tanh / Yuhe Chang / Rachel Lazzaro et al. | NTRS | 2022