Towards affordable 3D physics-based river flow rating: application over the Luangwa River basin

Samboko, Hubert T.; Schurer, Sten; Savenije, Hubert H. G.; Makurira, Hodson; Banda, Kawawa; Winsemius, Hessel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-12-155-2023

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-12-155-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-12-155-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

Research article

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21 Aug 2023

Research article |

| 21 Aug 2023

Towards affordable 3D physics-based river flow rating: application over the Luangwa River basin

Hubert T. Samboko, Sten Schurer, Hubert H. G. Savenije, Hodson Makurira, Kawawa Banda, and Hessel Winsemius

Data sets

Photogrammetry Images from DJI P4, point clouds scripts and supporting data H. T. Samboko https://doi.org/10.4121/14865225

Model code and software

Python Scripts used in the study: Towards Affordable 3D Physics-Based River Flow Rating: Application Over Luangwa River Basin H. T. Samboko, H. H. G. Savenije, and H. Winsemius https://doi.org/10.4121/21557148

Short summary

The study investigates how low-cost technology can be applied in data-scarce catchments to improve water resource management. More specifically, we investigate how drone technology can be combined with low-cost real-time kinematic positioning (RTK) global navigation satellite system (GNSS) equipment and subsequently applied to a 3D hydraulic model so as to generate more physically based rating curves.