EC24A:
Autonomous Systems for Study of Coastal and Estuarine Processes Posters


Session ID#: 9620

Session Description:
This session is intended to review the current state-of-the-art in the use of autonomous systems for observation and study of coastal and estuarine processes. Autonomous in this context refers to all forms of unpiloted systems operating in the air, land, and sea and focused on coastal zone sensing including unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), gliders, and potentially autonomous terrestrial vehicles. This session will consider technology development, methods for data acquisition, and how data from these systems are processed and applied to measure and analyze coastal and estuarine processes. The geographic domains of interest extend from the littoral boundary inland through sub-aerial coastal landforms to estuaries. Of particular interest in this session is the use of UAS for coastal mapping, hazards assessment, and monitoring nearshore processes; integration of data acquired from unmanned systems for model calibration or parameter estimation; fusion of measurements derived from air and sea platforms; and all other emergent forms of the use of autonomous systems for study of coastal and estuarine processes.
Primary Chair:  Michael J Starek, Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, Computing Sciences and Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
Chairs:  Richard B Coffin, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States and Michael Wetz, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Life Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
Moderators:  Michael J Starek, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States and Richard B Coffin, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Michael J Starek, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States and Richard B Coffin, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
Index Terms:

1926 Geospatial [INFORMATICS]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4235 Estuarine processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4294 Instruments and techniques [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IS - Instrumentation & Sensing Technologies
  • MG - Marine Geology & Sedimentology
  • OD - Ocean Observing and Data Management
  • PO - Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Evaluating UAS hyperspatial RGB imagery and textures for identifying beach areas along the south Texas Gulf Coast (88092)
Lihong Su, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at TAMU-CC, Corpus Christi, TX, United States and James C Gibeaut, Texas A & M University- Corpus Christi, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
 
New applications for autonomous aerial vehicles in coastal oceanographic research (88197)
Libe Washburn1, Eduardo Romero2, Cyril Johnson2 and Brian M Emery3, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute and Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
Nearshore Measurements From a Small UAV. (88224)
Robert A Holman, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR, United States, Katherine L Brodie, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Field Research Facility, Duck, NC, United States and Nick Spore, Field Research Facility, USACE, Duck, NC, NC, United States
 
Overview of TAMU-CC Unmanned Aircraft Systems Coastal Research in the Port Mansfield Area, June 2015 (88717)
David Henry Bridges and Michael J Starek, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
 
Application of Unmanned Aircraft System Instrumentation to Study Coastal Geochemistry (89540)
Richard B Coffin, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, Chris L Osburn, North Carolina State University, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States and Joseph P Smith, US Naval Academy, Oceanography Department, Annapolis, MD, United States
 
Simultaneous Observations of Beach and Surf-Zone Topography from a sUAS (90309)
Richard Kevin Slocum, Cormorant Analytics, Fairfax, VA, United States; US Army Engineer Research & Development Center, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Duck, NC, United States, Katherine L Brodie, US Army Corps of Engineers, Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory, Field Research Facility, Duck, NC, United States and Nick Spore, Field Research Facility, USACE, Duck, NC, NC, United States
 
Applications of Low Altitude Remote Sensing Platform for Monitoring Coastal Environmental Changes (90445)
Young-Heon Jo and Jong-Seok Lee, Pusan National University
 
spatial and temporal variability of hydrodynamics by the artificial discharge near the inlet of tidal power plant (90549)
Jong Wook Kim, Inha univ, Seung-Buhm Woo, Inha University, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South) and Hyo-Keun Kwon, Korea Water Resources Corporation, Korea, Incheon, South Korea
 
Monitoring the Baltic Sea: Using Bathymetry to Guide Argo Floats (91280)
Simo-Matti SiiriƤ1, Laura Tuomi1, Petra Roiha1 and Tero Purokoski2, (1)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Marine Research Unit, Helsinki, Finland, (2)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Observational Services, Helsinki, Finland
 
Conducting Coastal and Oceanographic Research at the Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence and Innovation (Invited) (92726)
Jerry Hendrix, Melanie Neely Willis and Luis Hernandez, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Lone Star UAS Center
 
Investigation of UAS-based SfM Photogrammetry and Bathymetric Inversion for Mapping a Shallow Water, Low-energy Littoral Zone (92960)
Michael J Starek, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
 
High-efficient Unmanned Aircraft System Operations for Ecosystem Assessment (93065)
Hao Xu and Hua Zhang, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
 
The framework of a UAS-aided flash flood modeling system for coastal regions (93083)
Hua Zhang and Hao Xu, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
 
Micro Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Shallow Littoral Data Sampling (Invited) (93221)
Robin Roberson Murphy, Texas A&M College Station, Computer Science and Engineering, College Station, TX and Grant Wilde, Texas A&M College Station, Computer Science and Engineering, College Station, TX, United States
 
AUV and Aircraft Measurements of an Internal Hydraulic Jump at the Mouth of the Columbia River (93697)
Craig L McNeil, Applied Physics Lab, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States