The main goal of this session is to bring together the community of scientists, scholars, and engineers, investigating, teaching, and applying novel measurement techniques and monitoring concepts, which are crucial to analyze sedimentary and hydro-morphological processes in rivers, lakes and reservoirs, estuaries as well as in coastal and maritime environments. This session focuses on the evaluation and quantification of bed load and suspended load, bedforms migration, channel horizontal migration, bed armoring and colmation, but also on describing the mode of transport, flocculation, settling, and re-suspension of the sediment particles. In general, this session aims to attract research communities that are developing measurement techniques that contribute to the understanding of hydro-morphological changes in rivers and of the interaction between the fluvial sediment and the natural and built environment.
Contributions are welcome with a particular focus on single and combined measurement techniques, on post-processing methods as well as on innovative and advanced monitoring concepts for field and laboratory applications. Furthermore, we welcome contributions containing recent results in a temporal and spatial scale on sediment budgets as well as on sedimentary and morphodynamic processes in open water environments.
Contributions may refer, but are not restricted, to:
- Measurements of suspended sediment transport in open water environments, e.g., with optical, acoustical, traditional sampling methods or others;
- Measurements of bed load transport, e.g., with bed load samplers, sediment traps, tracers or acoustic and optical methods;
- Determination of sediment characteristics, e.g., with mechanical bed material samplers or freeze core technique.
- Innovative measurement approach or techniques aimed for validation and calibration of numerical models;
- Measurements of critical bed shear stress of cohesive sediments, e.g., with benthic flumes or miscellaneous devices;
- Monitoring of morphological changes like lake and reservoir sedimentation, bank erosion or bed armoring, meandering migration, river bends evolution;
- Measuring networks / multiple point datasets;
- Large or small scale monitoring concepts including case studies;
- In-situ or laboratory calibration of measurement data using classical or novel (e.g., machine learning) approaches.
Contributions are welcome with a particular focus on single and combined measurement techniques, on post-processing methods as well as on innovative and advanced monitoring concepts for field and laboratory applications. Furthermore, we welcome contributions containing recent results in a temporal and spatial scale on sediment budgets as well as on sedimentary and morphodynamic processes in open water environments.
Contributions may refer, but are not restricted, to:
- Measurements of suspended sediment transport in open water environments, e.g., with optical, acoustical, traditional sampling methods or others;
- Measurements of bed load transport, e.g., with bed load samplers, sediment traps, tracers or acoustic and optical methods;
- Determination of sediment characteristics, e.g., with mechanical bed material samplers or freeze core technique.
- Innovative measurement approach or techniques aimed for validation and calibration of numerical models;
- Measurements of critical bed shear stress of cohesive sediments, e.g., with benthic flumes or miscellaneous devices;
- Monitoring of morphological changes like lake and reservoir sedimentation, bank erosion or bed armoring, meandering migration, river bends evolution;
- Measuring networks / multiple point datasets;
- Large or small scale monitoring concepts including case studies;
- In-situ or laboratory calibration of measurement data using classical or novel (e.g., machine learning) approaches.