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HS1.2.3 | Hydrological Monitoring with Vibration/Acoustic Sensing: Observation, Investigation, Physical Modeling, and Practical Application
Hydrological Monitoring with Vibration/Acoustic Sensing: Observation, Investigation, Physical Modeling, and Practical Application
Convener: Jui-Ming ChangECSECS | Co-conveners: Luc Illien, Ron Nativ, Wei-An Chao
Hydrological monitoring is crucial in understanding the intricate nature of Earth's water cycles. It has a significant impact on the formation and transformation of drainage systems and landforms over time. Recently, remote-sensing sensors such as geophones, seismometers, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), and underwater acoustic hydrophones have provided a new view compared to traditional monitoring techniques such as acoustic Doppler stream-flow devices, piezometers, rain gauges, and water-level gauges. Vibration/acoustic sensing presents an exciting and unparalleled opportunity to uncover previously obscured signatures of hydrological processes, encompassing turbulent flow, bedload transport, groundwater fluctuations, snowmelt, rainfall, debris flow, calving iceberg, and landslide dam breaches, all while offering the advantage of remote monitoring, eliminating the need for intimate proximity to these processes and reducing the associated risks to human life and equipment damage.

This session focuses on applying vibration/acoustic monitoring to hydrological processes, covering observations, investigations, physical modeling, and practical implementations. We would like to invite contributions that explore the utilization of vibration/acoustic sensing in hydrological-related processes. These novel and comprehensive observations have the potential to enhance our understanding of the Earth's water cycle.