Paper Info
Title
Monitoring Riverbank Erosion in Mountain Catchments Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning.
Abstract
Sediment yield is a key factor in river basins management due to the various and adverse consequences that erosion and sediment transport in rivers may have on the environment. Although various contributions can be found in the literature about sediment yield modeling and bank erosion monitoring, the link between weather conditions, river flow rate and bank erosion remains scarcely known. Thus, a basin scale assessment of sediment yield due to riverbank erosion is an objective hard to be reached. In order to enhance the current knowledge in this field, a monitoring method based on high resolution 3D model reconstruction of riverbanks, surveyed by multi-temporal terrestrial laser scanning, was applied to four banks in Val Tartano, Northern Italy. Six data acquisitions over one year were taken, with the aim to better understand the erosion processes and their triggering factors by means of more frequent observations compared to usual annual campaigns. The objective of the research is to address three key questions concerning bank erosion: "how" erosion happens, "when" during the year and "how much" sediment is eroded. The method proved to be effective and able to measure both eroded and deposited volume in the surveyed area. Finally an attempt to extrapolate basin scale volume for bank erosion is presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3390/rs8030241
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
bank erosion monitoring,freeze thaw cycles,TLS,bank erosion,sediment yield,river morphology
Streamflow,Sediment,Hydrology,Bank erosion,Sediment transport,Erosion,Geology,River morphology,WEPP,Structural basin
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
8
3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
l longoni1152.78
monica papini2152.44
Davide Brambilla350.90
Luigi Barazzetti43911.39
Fabio Roncoroni562.75
Marco Scaioni69716.34
Vladislav Ivov Ivanov700.34