HR: 16:30h
AN: SF44A-02    [Abstracts]
TI: Optical Remote Sensing of the Nearshore: The Argus Program
AU: * Holman, R
EM: holman@coas.oregonstate.edu
AF: COAS, Oregon State University, 104 COAS Admin Bldg Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-5503 United States
AB: The past decade has seen much increased interest in the development and deployment of environmental sensor networks or observatories. A part of the interest is due to technological developments, including high-bandwidth communications, that make multi-user common-access sampling programs feasible and cost-effective. However, an important component of the interest is due to recent discoveries in nonlinear dynamics systems and chaos, and the recognition that long time series observations can reveal physics that could not be observed from their short time series predecessors. In the field of nearshore processes, the study of the beach area out to 10 m water depth, the Coastal Imaging Lab at Oregon State University has developed and operated a long-term observing system called the Argus Program, based on shore-based optical imaging. Beginning in 1992, collections have been made hourly of a range of beach bathymetry, morphology and fluid dynamic measurements. The program includes twelve stations, sited around the world, and an archive that currently includes 77 site-years of data. This talk will address issues of developing and operating the Argus Program and of dealing with a widely distributed user group.
UR: http://cil-www.coas.oregonstate.edu:8080
DE: 4275 Remote sensing and electromagnetic processes (0689)
DE: 4294 Instruments and techniques
DE: 3020 Littoral processes
DE: 3094 Instruments and techniques
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting