Accession Number:

ADA288619

Title:

The PLUme MEasurement System (PLUMES): Operational and Data Processing Procedures for Deep-Water Monitoring.

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION VICKSBURG MS

Personal Author(s):

Report Date:

1994-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

7.0

Abstract:

This technical note describes the operational and data analysis procedures for deep-water monitoring of dredged material disposal operations using the PLUme Measurement System PLUMES. The development plans for PLUMES and some preliminary field results are described in Dredging Research Technical Notes DRP-1-O6 Kraus and Thevenot 1992. Another of the Dredging Research Technical Notes DRP-1-16, Tubman 1994 describes the system that was developed, discusses its commercial availability, and examines the theoretical relationship between PLUMES measurements and suspended sediment concentrations.

Descriptors:

• *SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS
• *DISPOSAL
• *DREDGED MATERIALS
• DATA PROCESSING
• COASTAL REGIONS
• MONITORING
• ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENT
• CONCENTRATION(COMPOSITION)
• PLUMES
• DEEP WATER
• DREDGING
• SONAR
• ACOUSTIC REFLECTION

Subject Categories:

• Water Pollution and Control

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE