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River Camera and Sensor Data: Hydrologic Research
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This live video is coming from a fully enclosed underwater color video camera that has six LED around the lens to provide viewing in dark water.
The camera is pointing at two pieces of perforated 2-1/2 inch steel pipe that house our water quality sensor. |
Below is water temperature data collected in the last hour from the gorge.
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The camera tree was erected two years ago as a collaboration between FSP and San Diego Supercomputer Center scientist John Helly.
John was interested in using live video to monitor the flow of the Santa Margarita River and to see if he could create an algorithm that could estimate flow by having a computer program compare the width of the river in the crossing to baseline images. The camera tree is powered by a large solar array and battery bank located 250 feet up river and is bridged to the Intra-SMER network by a Lucent ROR. |
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The graph below displays the river temperature over the past 24 hours.
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