A new system for breakzone location and the measurement of breaking wave heights and periods.

Author

Lane, Christopher ; Gal, Yaniv ; Browne, Matthew ; Short, Andrew ; Strauss, Darrell ; Tomlinson, Rodger ; Jackson, Kathryn ; Tan, Clarence ; Blumenstein, Michael

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

2234

Lastpage

2236

Abstract

This paper presents a new system for measuring breakzone locations, breaking wave height and wave periods across the surfzone from a digital video sequence. The system (Wave Pack) aims to provide real-time measurement of breaking and re-breaking wave heights and wave periods using low mounted video camera installations. Following on site data collection and analysis it was found that the Wave Pack system provides a low cost, robust, reliable and accurate system for measuring continuous wave height and period from a low elevation video camera aimed at the target beach under a wide range of wave conditions. These tests have verified the accuracy of Wave Pack in comparison to existing systems.

Keywords

height measurement; ocean waves; real-time systems; video cameras; video signal processing; Wave Pack system; breaking wave height measurement; breakzone location; data collection; digital video sequence; real-time measurement; surfzone; video camera installations; wave period; Australia; Cameras; Correlation; Manuals; Pixel; Sea measurements; Streaming media; breaking wave height; breakzones; video analysis; wave period;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5652740

Filename

5652740