Assessing suspended sediment fluxes with acoustic Doppler current profilers:case study from large rivers in Russia

作     者：Sergey Chalov Vsevolod Moreido Victor Ivanov Aleksandra Chalova 

作者机构：Faculty of GeographyLomonosov Moscow State UniversityMoscowRussia Institute of PhysicsKazan Federal UniversityKazanRussia Flood Hydrology LabWater Problems Institute of Russian Academy of SciencesMoscowRussia 

出 版 物：《Big Earth Data》 (地球大数据（英文）)

年 卷 期：2022年第6卷第4期

页      面：504-526页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 08[工学] 081501[工学-水文学及水资源] 0815[工学-水利工程] 

基　　金：support(project 21-17-00181).Additionally,field studies at the Selenga River were supported by Russian Fund for Basic Research(project 18-05-60219) field studies at the Lena River-by Russian Scientific Foundation support(project 21-17-00181) field studies at the Moscow River catchment-within Scientific Foundation project 19-77-30004 The analytical experiments were supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation under the Agreement 075-15-2021-574.Also,this paper has been supported by the Kazan Federal University Strategic Academic Leadership Program.BIG EARTH DATA 521。 

主　　题：Big data ADCP backscatter intensity sediment transport 

摘      要：Surrogate measures are becoming increasingly used to measure suspended sediment flux,but only few particular computer techniques of data processing are recently developed.This study demonstrates capabilities of acoustic Doppler current profilers(ADCPs)to infer information regarding suspended-sand concentrations in river systems and calculate suspended sediment flux via big data analytics which includes process of analyzing and data mining of measurements based on ADCP signal backscatter intensity data.We present here specific codes done by R language using RStudio software with open-source tidyverse and plotly packages aimed to generate tables containing data of suspended load for cells,verticals and whole cross-section based on backscattering values from 600 kH Teledyne RDInstruments RioGrande WorkHorse ADCP unit,as well perform estimates of morphometric,suspended sediment concentration(SSC)and velocity characteristics of the flow.The developed tools enabled to process large data array consisting of over 56,526,480 geo-referenced values of river depth,streamflow velocity,and backscatter intensity for each river cross-section measured at six case study sites in Russia.