
Optimisation of Dynamic Heterogeneous Rainfall Sensor Networks in the Context of Citizen Observatories
Jonathan Locke Hart(Author)
CRC Press
1st Edition
Published on 12. November 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
188 pages
978-0-367-41706-2 (ISBN)
Description
Precipitation drives the dynamics of flows and storages in water systems, making its monitoring essential for water management. Conventionally, precipitation is monitored using in-situ and remote sensors. In-situ sensors are arranged in networks, which are usually sparse, providing continuous observations for long periods at fixed points in space, and due to the high costs of such networks, they are often sub-optimal. To increase the efficiency of the monitoring networks, we explore the use of sensors that can relocate as rainfall events develop (dynamic sensors), as well as increasing the number of sensors involving volunteers (citizens). This research focusses on the development of an approach for merging heterogeneous observations in non-stationary precipitation fields, exploring the interactions between different definitions of optimality for the design of sensor networks, as well as development of algorithms for the optimal scheduling of dynamic sensors. This study was carried out in three different case studies, including Bacchiglione River (Italy), Don River (U.K.) and Brue Catchment (U.K.) The results of this study indicate that optimal use of dynamic sensors may be useful for monitoring precipitation to support water management and flow forecasting.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-41706-2 (9780367417062)
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Juan Carlos Chacon-Hurtado is a Civil Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, with an MSc Water Science and Engineering with specialisation in Hydroinformatics from UNESCO-IHE, and with various academic and professional interests related to the use of advanced ITC tools to address water-related problems (hydroinformatics). Juan Carlos has experience in areas of hydrological modelling, optimisation, uncertainty analysis, data assimilation, water loss control and scientific programming. Juan Carlos is currently a Postdoc researcher in multi-criteria decision analysis applied to sewer asset management at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Content
1 Introduction
2 Literature review and proposed framework
3 Case studies
4 Advancing Kriging methods for merging heterogeneous data sources in non-stationary precipitation fields
5 Optimisation of static precipitation sensor networks and robustness analysis
6 Optimisation of dynamic precipitation sensor networks
7 Conclusions and recommendations
2 Literature review and proposed framework
3 Case studies
4 Advancing Kriging methods for merging heterogeneous data sources in non-stationary precipitation fields
5 Optimisation of static precipitation sensor networks and robustness analysis
6 Optimisation of dynamic precipitation sensor networks
7 Conclusions and recommendations