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      <title>AI-driven, Web-deployed, Low-Cost Visual Sensing of Stormwater Outlet Flow</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[​Robust and reliable information is needed regarding stormwater infrastructure performance to effectively manage excess flow and pollutants from stormwater runoff. In particular, measuring stormwater outlet flow is important as outlets provide the critical function of regulating flow for structural stormwater control measures (SCMs), thus outlet monitoring aids in evaluating performance and identifying possible design problems and causes for failure. In relatively small watersheds, stormwater flow monitoring often involves the installation of weirs at the outlet of stormwater pipes, and use of in situ in water sensors in harsh environments and difficult places, which renders stormwater flow monitoring difficult at best. 

Image-based sensing, an active area of research, has the potential to alleviate a lot of the difficulties associated with in situ in water sensors. In a North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) sponsored project, the study team initially tried to use traditional machine vision techniques to images and videos of stormwater flow, with little success. This was until the team decided to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) based techniques.  These approaches have been transformative and stunning in many respects. They have made finding the water level in a culvert from an initially ‘impossible task’ from low light, low contrast images a stunningly simple task. The ‘AI-driven, Web-deployed, Low-Cost Visual Sensing of Stormwater Outlet Flow’ project proposes to take advantage of the experienced gained and the talented personnel recruited to go to the next step and all the way to creating user-friendly, user-ready App deployed tools.  

For this, the study team proposes to build on the existing project and use a suite of additional AI-driven technologies to automatically measure velocities from videos, something never done before, although necessary to measure stormwater flow.  With both water stage and velocity measurements, flow can be calculated. The study team proposes to deploy the computer vision tools produced on mobile/web client applications, as well as on smart cameras. This will largely streamline and will change monitoring stormwater flow from a difficult to a user friendly, low-cost, and low-maintenance task.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 07:30:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Updating Techniques for Estimating Magnitude and Frequency of Floods for Rural Basins in the Southeastern United States</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The objectives of this research project are to: (1) update magnitude and frequency of peak flows for rural, unregulated USGS stations in South Carolina where adequate data are available; (2) when appropriate and based on reviews of the data, update magnitude and frequency of peak flows at regulated USGS gages in South Carolina; (3) in coordination with the USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center NC and GA offices and the USGS Office of Surface Water, update the regional generalized skew coefficient for NC, SC, and GA; 4) in coordination with the USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center NC and GA offices, update the regional rural flood-frequency equations for the 50-, 20-, 10-, 4-, 2-, 1-, 0.5-, and 0.2-percent chance exceedance flows; (5) update the StreamStats application to include the new gage flood-frequency estimates and the new regional regression equations; and (6) develop procedures for updating the flood-frequency estimates for stations on an annual basis with the results being provided through the StreamStats application.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:04:27 GMT</pubDate>
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