Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE
Volume 97, Issue -, Pages 72-85Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.06.049
Keywords
Water quality; Rivermouth; Plumes; Dynamic; Decision support; Adaptive sampling
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- Great Lakes Restoration Initiative through USGS [GA16AP00001]
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This paper proposes a geospatial analysis framework and software to interpret water-quality sampling data from towed undulating vehicles in near-real time. The framework includes data quality assurance and quality control processes, automated kriging interpolation along undulating paths, and local hotspot and cluster analyses. These methods are implemented in an interactive Web application developed using the Shiny package in the R programming environment to support near-real time analysis along with 2-and 3-D visualizations. The approach is demonstrated using historical sampling data from an undulating vehicle deployed at three rivermouth sites in Lake Michigan during 2011. The normalized root-mean-square error (NRMSE) of the interpolation averages approximately 10% in 3-fold cross validation. The results show that the framework can be used to track river plume dynamics and provide insights on mixing, which could be related to wind and seiche events. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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