Sonia Martínez
Jacobs Faculty Scholar
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Freshwater-saltwater boundary detection using mobile sensors. Part I: Drifter deployment.
Yu Ru, and Sonia MartÃnez
Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Int. Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, December 2011
Abstract:
Due to a reduction in the supply of freshwater in estuaries, such as those associated with a drought or the diversion of freshwater for agricultural and/or municipal uses, saltwater can intrude deeply into river channels. Here, we focus on the freshwater-saltwater boundary detection problem, and identify a point on the boundary that reflects the degree of salinity intrusion via drifter deployment. Our approach consists of deploying two drifters to explore the boundary in different directions and obtaining the estimate of the point based on the estimates from these two drifters. We show that the proposed algorithms can achieve an arbitrarily accurate estimate under certain assumptions on the salinity field.
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Bib-tex entry:
@InProceedings{YR-SM:11-cdc-partI,
author = {Y. Ru and S. Mart{\'\i}nez},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference},
title = {Freshwater-saltwater boundary
detection using mobile sensors. Part I: Drifter deployment.},
year = {2011},
month = {December},
address = {Orlando, FL, USA},
pages = {5757--5761}
}