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This dataset presents the video and velocity observations of artificial sand and oil agglomerates (acquired with two Canon 7D DSLR cameras) collected during a 2014 USGS small-oscillatory flow tunnel experiment conducted at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Stennis Space Center, Mississippi. The information contained within the videos is needed to capture artificial sand and oil agglomerate incipient motion, and flow velocity at time of incipient motion, under ideal conditions, to test shear stress based incipient motion parameterizations. The information contained within the videos is also needed to capture exhumation and burial processes of artificial sand and oil agglomerates. This dataset contains video footage of aSOAs in a small-oscillatory flow tunnel from the sea floor interaction experiment, and graphical representations of observed flow velocity. Observed flow velocities, which provide additional information about aSOA incipient motion, were also collected during each experiment (see 2017_309_DD_SFI_velocity.zip) and are included in this data release.
For experiment A, the movable sand bed was initially leveled. The aSOAs of diameter 0.5 cm, 1.0 cm, and 2.5 cm, were placed in order of class size in two rows. One row was placed proud (i.e. not partially buried) on the bottom, while the second row of aSOAs were placed partially buried with only the tops were exposed. The initial conditions of Experiment B were simply the final conditions of Experiment A. The bed was not leveled. The aSOAs ranging in diameter from 0.5 cm, 1 cm and 2.5cm were deployed sitting proud on the sand bed. A GoPro camera was also deployed in the trough of one bed ripple to provide a unique perspective of aSOA motion and sand bed evolution. The initial conditions of Experiment C utilized the final conditions of Experiment B. The bed was not re-leveled. The aSOAs ranging in diameter from 5 cm to 10 cm were deployed sitting proud on the sand bed. The GoPro camera was removed from the small-oscillatory flow tunnel. For experiment D, the movable sand bed was initially leveled. All previously deployed aSOA were removed. The aSOAs were deployed in two groupings which simulated recently broken up SOA mats. One grouping was arranged in a tight group, while the second was arranged loosely.The two Canon 7D DSLR cameras captured 1080p HD video at 30 frames per second of the proud and partially buried aSOAs. Person who carried out this activity:
First, velocities were first passed through a MATLAB built-in one dimensional smoothing filter (filter.m) with a window size of ten. Second, the difference was taken between the raw and smoothed time series and the standard deviation of that difference was calculated. Third, points with a difference greater than three times the standard deviation were identified, and replaced with the smoothed signal value at the same time. The first, second, and third, steps were then repeated three times, with the previously de-spiked signal replacing the input each time, which produced final, quality controlled, de-spiked and smoothed de-spiked time series of velocities.De-spiked and smoothed de-spiked records of 3D velocity data, time, and depth information were re-saved in MATLAB readable ‘.mat’ files. De-spiked and smoothed de-spiked velocity data were treated with an additional quality control step.
A measure of signal quality, called Correlation, was recorded by the Vectrino profiler along with the raw data. Correlation is the measure of the data correlation as returned by each of the three acoustic beams of the profiler. Time points with correlation less than 70% are replaced in the record with non-number (NaN) values.Quality controlled records of de-spiked and smoothed de-spiked velocity were saved in MATLAB readable ‘.mat’ files. Person who carried out this activity:
A single JPEG from the video record is read using 'imread.' The single JPEG is rotated 180 degrees, to correct the image orientation. The overall figure is created using “figure.” The single JPEG from the video record is plotted within the overall figure using “subplot,” and “imshow.” The graph of velocity, and indicator of current time was plotted using “subplot,” and “plot.” The current overall figure is collated as a video frame in a sequence of frames using MATLAB built-in function “getframe.” The interpretive video product “.avi” file, has one frame added to it using MATLAB built-in function “WriteVideo” to add the frame created using “getframe.”Due to desktop computer memory limitations and large video file sizes, the video creation process is carried out iteratively over a number of consecutive video parts each 42 seconds in duration. Person who carried out this activity:
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Use_Constraints:Public domain data from the U.S. Government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey as the originator of the dataset.
This digital publication was prepared by an agency of the United States Government. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution imply any such warranty. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and (or) contained herein. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof.
| Data format: | This dataset provides movable bed, sea floor interaction, experiment video data with a graphical representation of flow velocity. Images were collected during small-oscillatory flow tunnel laboratory experiments at the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, Stennis Mississippi and includes the associated metadata. in format MP4 (version 1) Mpeg-4 video file Size: 20700 |
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https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/data-release/doi-F76D5R69/data/2017_309_DD_SFI_video_A.zip https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/data-release/doi-F76D5R69/data/2017_309_DD_SFI_video_B.zip https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/data-release/doi-F76D5R69/data/2017_309_DD_SFI_video_C.zip https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/data-release/doi-F76D5R69/data/2017_309_DD_SFI_video_D.zip |
This zip file contains data available in mpeg-4 (MP4) video file format. The user must have software capable of reading .mp4 video file format to use these data.