Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP150101172

Funded Activity Summary

Advances in real-time satellite monitoring of flow in rivers and estuaries. This project plans to improve the monitoring of our waterways by developing a novel moving drifter system that takes flow and water quality measurements along the pathlines of the drifters. One of the key challenges for Australian water management lies in monitoring and managing rivers and estuaries effectively over large geographical areas. Traditionally, instrumentation at stationary points has been used for such monitoring, under the simplifying assumption that a single point adequately represents a very large region of water. By contrast, the Real-Time Flow Logging of Water (RT-FLOW) system expects to provide information from large regions of our waterways, providing stakeholders with more information to enable them to better manage issues including storm surge and erosion. The project also aims to provide improved validation of hydrodynamic models.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2016

End Date: 31-08-2020

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $397,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Turbulent Flows | Navigation and Position Fixing | Interdisciplinary Engineering | Environmental Engineering Modelling

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Environmental and Natural Resource Evaluation not elsewhere classified | Coastal and Estuarine Water Management |

Other Keywords

Coastal and Estuarine Water Management | Environmental Engineering Modelling | Environmental and Natural Resource Evaluation not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Interdisciplinary Engineering | Navigation and Position Fixing | Turbulent Flows

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