Outputs (40)

Mapping riverbed sediment size from Sentinel‐2 satellite data (2022)
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Marchetti, G., Bizzi, S., Belletti, B., Lastoria, B., Comiti, F., & Carbonneau, P. E. (2022). Mapping riverbed sediment size from Sentinel‐2 satellite data. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 47(10), 2544-2559. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5394

A comprehensive understanding of river dynamics requires the grain size distribution of bed sediments and its variation across different temporal and spatial scales. Several techniques are already available for grain size assessment based on field an... Read More about Mapping riverbed sediment size from Sentinel‐2 satellite data.

Image classification of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in Greenland using deep learning methods (2021)
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Marochov, M., Stokes, C., & Carbonneau, P. (2021). Image classification of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in Greenland using deep learning methods. The Cryosphere, 15, 5041-5059. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5041-2021

A wealth of research has focused on elucidating the key controls on mass loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets in response to climate forcing, specifically in relation to the drivers of marine-terminating outlet glacier change. The manual... Read More about Image classification of marine-terminating outlet glaciers in Greenland using deep learning methods.

Adopting deep learning methods for airborne RGB fluvial scene classification (2020)
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Carbonneau, P., Dugdale, S., Breckon, T., Dietrich, J., Fonstad, M., Miyamoto, H., & Woodget, A. (2020). Adopting deep learning methods for airborne RGB fluvial scene classification. Remote Sensing of Environment, 251, Article 112107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112107

Rivers are among the world's most threatened ecosystems. Enabled by the rapid development of drone technology, hyperspatial resolution (<10 cm) images of fluvial environments are now a common data source used to better understand these sensitive habi... Read More about Adopting deep learning methods for airborne RGB fluvial scene classification.

UAV-based training for fully fuzzy classification of Sentinel-2 fluvial scenes (2020)
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Carbonneau, P., Belletti, B., Micotti, M., Lastoria, B., Casaioli, M., Mariani, S., Marchetti, G., & Bizzi, S. (2020). UAV-based training for fully fuzzy classification of Sentinel-2 fluvial scenes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45(13), 3120-3140. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4955

An estimated 76% of global stream area is occupied by channels with widths above 30 meters. Sentinel‐2 imagery with resolutions of 10m could supply information about the composition of river corridors at national and global scales. Fuzzy classificati... Read More about UAV-based training for fully fuzzy classification of Sentinel-2 fluvial scenes.

Remotely Sensed Rivers in the Anthropocene: State of the Art and Prospects (2020)
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Piégay, H., Arnaud, F., Belletti, B., Bertrand, M., Bizzi, S., Carbonneau, P., Dufour, S., Liebault, F., Ruiz‐Villanueva, V., & Slater, L. (2020). Remotely Sensed Rivers in the Anthropocene: State of the Art and Prospects. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45(1), 157-188. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4787

The rivers of the world are undergoing accelerated change in the Anthropocene, and need to be managed at much broader spatial and temporal scales than before. Fluvial remote sensing now offers a technical and methodological framework that can be depl... Read More about Remotely Sensed Rivers in the Anthropocene: State of the Art and Prospects.

The Case Against Vast Glaciation in Valles Marineris, Mars (2018)
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Kissick, L. E., & Carbonneau, P. E. (2019). The Case Against Vast Glaciation in Valles Marineris, Mars. Icarus, 321, 803-823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2018.12.021

The Valles Marineris of Mars form the largest system of interconnected canyons in the Solar System, where morphological, mineralogical, and structural evidence of widespread glaciation has been recently reported. However, neither precipitation models... Read More about The Case Against Vast Glaciation in Valles Marineris, Mars.

Robotic photosieving from low-cost multirotor sUAS: A proof-of-concept (2018)
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Carbonneau, P., Bizzi, S., & Marchetti, G. (2018). Robotic photosieving from low-cost multirotor sUAS: A proof-of-concept. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 43(5), 1160-1166. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4298

Measurement of riverbed material grainsizes is now a routine part of fieldwork in fluvial geomorphology and lotic ecology. In the last decade, several authors have proposed remote sensing approaches of grain size measurements based on terrestrial and... Read More about Robotic photosieving from low-cost multirotor sUAS: A proof-of-concept.

From manned to unmanned aircraft: Adapting airborne particle size mapping methodologies to the characteristics of sUAS and SfM (2018)
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Woodget, A., Fyffe, C., & Carbonneau, P. (2018). From manned to unmanned aircraft: Adapting airborne particle size mapping methodologies to the characteristics of sUAS and SfM. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 43(4), 857-870. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4285

Subaerial particle size data holds a wealth of valuable information for fluvial, coastal, glacial and other sedimentological applications. Recently, we have gained the opportunity to map and quantify surface particle sizes at the mesoscale using data... Read More about From manned to unmanned aircraft: Adapting airborne particle size mapping methodologies to the characteristics of sUAS and SfM.

Population density controls on microbial pollution across the Ganga catchment (2017)
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Milledge, D., Gurjar, S., Bunce, J., Tare, V., Sinha, R., & Carbonneau, P. (2018). Population density controls on microbial pollution across the Ganga catchment. Water Research, 128, 82-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2017.10.033

For millions of people worldwide, sewage-polluted surface waters threaten water security, food security and human health. Yet the extent of the problem and its causes are poorly understood. Given rapid widespread global urbanisation, the impact of ur... Read More about Population density controls on microbial pollution across the Ganga catchment.

Cost-effective non-metric photogrammetry from consumer-grade sUAS: implications for direct georeferencing of structure from motion photogrammetry (2016)
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Carbonneau, P., & Dietrich, J. (2017). Cost-effective non-metric photogrammetry from consumer-grade sUAS: implications for direct georeferencing of structure from motion photogrammetry. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 42(3), 473-486. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4012

The declining costs of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS), in combination with Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry have triggered renewed interest in image-based topography reconstruction. However, the potential uptake of sUAS-based topograp... Read More about Cost-effective non-metric photogrammetry from consumer-grade sUAS: implications for direct georeferencing of structure from motion photogrammetry.

The accuracy and reliability of traditional surface flow type mapping: is it time for a new method of characterizing physical river habitat? (2016)
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Woodget, A., Visser, F., Maddock, I., & Carbonneau, P. (2016). The accuracy and reliability of traditional surface flow type mapping: is it time for a new method of characterizing physical river habitat?. River Research and Applications, 32(9), 1902-1914. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3047

Surface flow types (SFTs) are advocated as ecologically relevant hydraulic units, often mapped visually from the bankside to characterize rapidly the physical habitat of rivers. SFT mapping is simple, non-invasive and cost-efficient. However, it is a... Read More about The accuracy and reliability of traditional surface flow type mapping: is it time for a new method of characterizing physical river habitat?.

Predicting microbial water quality with models: Over-arching questions for managing risk in agricultural catchments (2015)
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Oliver, D., Porter, K., Pachepsky, Y., Muirhead, R., Reaney, S., Coffey, R., …Quilliam, R. (2016). Predicting microbial water quality with models: Over-arching questions for managing risk in agricultural catchments. Science of the Total Environment, 544, 39-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.086

The application of models to predict concentrations of faecal indicator organisms (FIOs) in environmental systems plays an important role for guiding decision-making associated with the management of microbial water quality. In recent years there has... Read More about Predicting microbial water quality with models: Over-arching questions for managing risk in agricultural catchments.

Surface morphology of fans in the high-Arctic periglacial environment of Svalbard: Controls and processes (2015)
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de Haas, T., Kleinhans, M., Carbonneau, P., Rubensdotter, L., & Hauber, E. (2015). Surface morphology of fans in the high-Arctic periglacial environment of Svalbard: Controls and processes. Earth-Science Reviews, 146, 163-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.04.004

Fan-shaped landforms occur in all climatic regions on Earth. They have been extensively studied in many of these regions, but there are few studies on fans in periglacial, Arctic and Antarctic regions. Fans in such regions are exposed to many site-sp... Read More about Surface morphology of fans in the high-Arctic periglacial environment of Svalbard: Controls and processes.

Low-cost inundation modelling at the reach scale with sparse data in the Lower Damodar River basin, India (2014)
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Sanyal, J., Carbonneau, P., & Densmore, A. (2014). Low-cost inundation modelling at the reach scale with sparse data in the Lower Damodar River basin, India. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 59(12), 2086-2102. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2014.884718

Data unavailability is the main reason for limited applications of hydrodynamic models for predicting inundation in the developing world. This paper aims to generate moderately high-resolution hybrid terrain data by merging height information from lo... Read More about Low-cost inundation modelling at the reach scale with sparse data in the Lower Damodar River basin, India.

Quantifying submerged fluvial topography using hyperspatial resolution UAS imagery and structure from motion photogrammetry (2014)
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Woodget, A., Carbonneau, P., Visser, F., & Maddock, I. (2014). Quantifying submerged fluvial topography using hyperspatial resolution UAS imagery and structure from motion photogrammetry. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 40(1), 47-64. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3613

Quantifying the topography of rivers and their associated bedforms has been a fundamental concern of fluvial geomorphology for decades. Such data, acquired at high temporal and spatial resolutions, are increasingly in demand for process-oriented inve... Read More about Quantifying submerged fluvial topography using hyperspatial resolution UAS imagery and structure from motion photogrammetry.

Analysing the effect of land use/cover changes at sub-catchment levels on downstream flood peaks: a semi-distributed modelling approach with sparse data (2014)
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Sanyal, J., Densmore, A., & Carbonneau, P. (2014). Analysing the effect of land use/cover changes at sub-catchment levels on downstream flood peaks: a semi-distributed modelling approach with sparse data. CATENA, 118, 28-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2014.01.015

This paper aims to evaluate how varying degrees of land-use/cover (LULC) changes across sub-catchments affect a flood peak at the catchment outlet. The study site was the Konar catchment, a part of the upper Damodar Basin in eastern India. A HEC-HMS... Read More about Analysing the effect of land use/cover changes at sub-catchment levels on downstream flood peaks: a semi-distributed modelling approach with sparse data.

2D finite element inundation modelling in anabranching channels with sparse data: examination of uncertainties (2014)
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Sanyal, J., Densmore, A., & Carbonneau, P. (2014). 2D finite element inundation modelling in anabranching channels with sparse data: examination of uncertainties. Water Resources Management, 28(8), 2351-2366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-014-0619-x

Flood inundation modelling in developing countries is severely limited by the lack of high resolution terrain data and suitable imagery to map flood extents. This study assessed the predictive uncertainty of modelled flood extents generated from TELE... Read More about 2D finite element inundation modelling in anabranching channels with sparse data: examination of uncertainties.

Debris-flow dominance of alluvial fans masked by runoff reworking and weathering (2014)
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de Haas, T., Ventra, D., Carbonneau, P., & Kleinhans, M. (2014). Debris-flow dominance of alluvial fans masked by runoff reworking and weathering. Geomorphology, 217, 165-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.04.028

Arid alluvial fan aggradation is highly episodic and fans often comprise active and inactive sectors. Hence the morphology and texture of fan surfaces are partly determined by secondary processes of weathering and erosion in addition to primary proce... Read More about Debris-flow dominance of alluvial fans masked by runoff reworking and weathering.

Mapping sub-pixel fluvial grain sizes with hyperspatial imagery (2014)
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Black, M., Carbonneau, P., Church, M., & Warburton, J. (2014). Mapping sub-pixel fluvial grain sizes with hyperspatial imagery. Sedimentology, 61(3), 691-711. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12072

This paper presents an investigation of image texture approaches for mapping sub-pixel fluvial grain-size features from airborne imagery, allowing for the rapid acquisition of surface sand and coarse fraction (>1.41 mm) grain-size information. Imager... Read More about Mapping sub-pixel fluvial grain sizes with hyperspatial imagery.

Asynchronous formation of Hesperian and Amazonian-aged deltas on Mars and implications for climate (2013)
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Hauber, E., Platz, T., Reiss, D., Le Deit, L., Kleinhans, M., Marra, W., …Carbonneau, P. (2013). Asynchronous formation of Hesperian and Amazonian-aged deltas on Mars and implications for climate. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 118(7), 1529-1544. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgre.20107

Most fluvial and lacustrine landforms on Mars are thought to be old and have formed more than ~3.8 Gyr ago, in the Noachian period. After a major climatic transition, surface liquid water became less abundant and finally disappeared almost completely... Read More about Asynchronous formation of Hesperian and Amazonian-aged deltas on Mars and implications for climate.