Ice Engineering. Number 25, September 2000. Remote Ice Motion Detection

• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER NH
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *ICE FORMATION; *CASUALTIES; *WARNING SYSTEMS; *ICE FORECASTING; DATA BASES; WATER FLOW; EMERGENCIES; INFORMATION EXCHANGE; DAMAGE; MONITORING; CASE STUDIES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; REMOTE DETECTION; MAINE; KENNEBEC RIVER(MAINE); ICE JAMS; ICE JAM DATABASE; Augusta; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA405618; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA405618

The Ice Engineering Information Exchange Bulletin is published as one of the information exchange functions of the Corps of Engineers. It is primarily intended to be a forum whereby information on ice engineering work done or managed by Corps field offices can be disseminated to other Corps offices, other U.S. Government agencies, and the engineering community in general. The potential exists for property damage, serious injury, and fatalities during ice-related flooding, evacuations, and other ice mitigation operations. A review of the CRREL Ice Jam Database indicates that most ice-jam-related deaths have occurred during evacuations. Because of their unpredictability and danger, communities that experience damaging ice jams should develop warning systems so that emergency operations can begin as soon as possible. Presented here is a method for detecting ice motion at remote locations that do not have power or telephone service. An ice monitoring program on the Kennebec River at Augusta, Maine, is presented as a case study. The original document contains color images.