TRANSFORMATION OF DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING
(National Science Foundation)

This collaborative project with Oregon State University, the Desert Research Institute and the Colorado School of Mines represents the continuation for another 4 years of the Centers for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs (CTEMPS) serving the hydrology and environment science communities with fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing systems and developments. In 2023, we added the next generation of team members, Mark Hausner, Chris Kratt, Eileen Martin and  Megan Wendroth to expand our offerings in DAS and sUAS  A full description of CTEMPS and how to request instrumentation can be found at www.ctemps.org.

And in 2024, we launched the UAS Federation, a consortium of NSF instruments centers to focus on uncrewed aircraft services to the earth and engineering communities UASFederation.org

Recent Published research on the topic:

Tyler, S.W., J. Selker, N. Van de Giesen, T. Bogaard and J. Aguilar-Lopez. (2022). Distributed Fiber-optics Hydrogeophysics. In The Groundwater Project Series. https://doi.org/10.21083/978-1-77470-031-0.

Hallnan, R., Saito, L., Busby, D. and Tyler, S. (2020) Modeling Shasta Reservoir water temperature responses for the 2015 drought and future climate change. ASCE Jour. of Water Res. Planning and Manag. 146(5): 04020018

Kratt, C.B., Woo, D.K., Johnson, K.N., Haagsma, M., Kumar, P., Selker, J. and Tyler, S. (2019) Field trials to detect drainage pipe networks using thermal and RGB data from unmanned aircraft. Agric. Water Manag. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2019.105895.

Pestana, S., Chickadel, C.C., Harpold, A., Kostadinov, T.S., Pai, H. Tyler, S., Webster, C. and Lundquist, J.D. (2019). Bias correction of airborne thermal infrared observations over forests using melting snow. Water Res. Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025699

Tyler, S., O. P. Jensen, Z. Hogan, S. Chandra, L. Galland, J. Simmons and the 2017 Taiman Research Team (2018). Perspectives on the application of unmanned aircraft for freshwater fisheries census.  Fisheries. Vol 43(11)   https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10167

Kostadinov, T., A. Harpold, M. Haunser, K. Bormann, R. Gaffney, K. McGwire, T. Painter, S. Tyler and R. Schumer (2019). Lidar and in-situ mapping of fractional snow cover in montane forests: Implications for optical remote sensing of seasonal snow. Remote Sensing of Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.11.037

Pai, H., H. Malenda, M. Briggs, K. Singha, R. González-Pinzón, M. Gooseff, S.W. Tyler, and the AirCTEMPS Team (2017). Potential for small unmanned aircraft systems applications for identifying groundwater-surface water exchange in a meandering river reach. Geophy. Res. Letters. doi:10.3390/s1610171

van de Giesen N, S.C. Steele-Dunne, J. Jansen, O. Hoes, M.B. Hausner, S. Tyler and J. Selker. 2012. Double-ended calibration of fiber-optic Raman spectra distributed temperature sensing data. Sensors, 12(5):5471-85.

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