Controlling sediment collection with data loggers

Rand E. Eads

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Controlling sediment collection with data loggers

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Authors:

Rand E. Eads

Year:

1991

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

In: Fan, Shou-Shan, and Yung-Huang Kuo, eds., Proceedings of the Fifth Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, 18-21 March 1991, Las Vegas, Nevada. Washington, DC: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; 2-41 to 2-48.

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Abstract

Abstract - The proliferation of commercial non-programmable data loggers in the past five years has done little to increase sediment sampling efficiency in remote locations. Recent advances in microelectronics have encouraged the development of commercial, low-power, programmable data loggers at reasonable cost. Although some facets of hydrologic data collection may lend themselves to fixed-time sampling intervals, sampling efficiency in many applications can be improved using a programmable data logger. For example, controlling the collection of suspended sediment with a probability sampling program may involve generating and sorting random numbers, testing input parameters, and activating a pumping sampler.

Keywords

PSW4351, Caspar Creek, sediment, data loggers, hydrologic data collection

Citation

Eads, Rand E. 1991. Controlling sediment collection with data loggers. In: Fan, Shou-Shan, and Yung-Huang Kuo, eds., Proceedings of the Fifth Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, 18-21 March 1991, Las Vegas, Nevada. Washington, DC: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; 2-41 to 2-48.