The use of mathematical models and autonomous underwater vehicles to monitor effluent discharges

• Autor(a) principal: Patrícia Ramos
• Data de Publicação: 2003
• Outros Autores: Mário Neves, Fernando L. Pereira, Carla Barreto
• Tipo de documento: Livro
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/71624
• topic: Ciências Tecnológicas, Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática; Technological sciences, Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Near field model predictions can be used to reduce the uncertainty about the location of an outfall sewage plume during a monitoring mission. In this paper we present an innovative methodology that uses these models to predict the plume location, establishing a sensing strategy applicable to a monitoring mission using an AUV. The paper describes two applications of this methodology, accomplishing the automatic mission definition using real-time oceanographic data. An AUV monitoring mission was conducted to detect and map the Aveiro outfall plume, making use of these applications to specify an efficient sampling strategy.