Real Time Monitoring of Rivers and Estuaries: Planning Workshops

0223998罗伯茨该规划赠款为一系列三个讲习班提供支持，这些讲习班将汇集技术、科学、教育和管理专家，制定一项计划，利用和应用遥感和实时监测技术进行河流和河口的研究和管理。 这些讲习班将与哥伦比亚大学的拉蒙多尔蒂地球观测站和伦斯勒理工学院合作举办，并将作为哈德逊河河流和河口中心赞助的一个示范项目的配套项目，该项目将利用哈德逊河口的一个选定地区作为实时监测河流物理、化学和生物参数的试验场。 这两个项目的并行轨道将使讲习班参与者能够利用一个正在运作的“河流实验室”，并使示范项目能够利用讲习班参与者的指导和专门知识。 研讨会和示范项目将整合他们的研究结果，以支持一项提案，该提案将寻求使用154英里长的哈德逊河口作为部署遥感阵列的模型，该阵列将利用新型小型传感器技术，机器人技术和现有的监测站，通过先进的高带宽，与卫星遥感图像集成的实时通信系统。 讲习班的具体目标是：（1）了解地球和生物圈连线的其他工作的状况;（2）确定河流和河口独特环境的技术要求、管理和教育应用;（3）制定一项河流和河口的综合现场和流域范围的测量计划。

0223998RobertsThis planning grant provides support for a series of three workshops that will bring together technological, scientific, educational and management experts to develop a plan for the use and application of remote sensing and real-time monitoring technologies for research and management of rivers and estuaries. These workshops will be organized in partnership with the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and they will serve as a companion to a demonstration project, sponsored by the Rivers and Estuaries Center on the Hudson River, that will use a selected area of the Hudson estuary as a test site for real-time monitoring of physical, chemical and biological river parameters. The parallel tracks of these two projects will allow workshop participants to avail themselves of an operating "river laboratory" and will allow the demonstration project to utilize the guidance and expertise of the workshop participants. The workshop and demonstration projects will integrate their findings to support a proposal that will seek to use the 154 mile Hudson River estuary as the model for the deployment of a remote sensing array that will utilize novel miniaturized sensor technology, robotics and existing monitoring stations to produce a continuous stream of river data transmitted by an advanced high-bandwidth, real-time communications system integrated with satellite remote-sensing imagery. The specific objectives of the workshops will be to (1) understand the status of other efforts to wire the earth and the biosphere, (2) identify the technological requirements and management and educational applications for the unique setting of rivers and estuaries and (3) develop a plan for an integrated in-situ and watershed-wide instrumentation of rivers and estuaries.