Projects >> U-046
PI: Dr. Hermann Fritz
Project Lead: Hermann Fritz
Funding Source: NSF/CMMI 1135768
Location: Kesennuma Bay, Japan
Dates: 2011-06-01 to 2011-06-05
U-046 - Tohoku Tsunami Flooding
PI: Dr. Hermann Fritz
Project Lead: Hermann Fritz
Funding Source: NSF/CMMI 1135768
Location: Kesennuma Bay, Japan
Dates: 2011-06-01 to 2011-06-05
Project Summary
The Terrestrial Lidar support is targeted at reoccupying eyewitness camera positions with the TLS to scan the detailed topograhphy in the tsunami flood zone within the field of view of selected eyewitness videos. This goes inline with proposal objective 5) The impacted Sanriku coast represents a test bed both in terms of instrumentation along the coast to record tsunami waves at various water depth and recorded eyewitness videos of tsunami flooding. The videos need to be calibrated in situ to extract time series of flow depth and velocity (Fritz et al., 2006).
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- Hermann M. Fritz, David A. Phillips, Akio Okayasu, Takenori Shimozono, Haijiang Liu, Fahad Mohammed, Vassilis Skanavis, Costas E. Synolakis, Tomoyuki Takahashi (2012), The 2011 Japan tsunami current velocity measurements from survivor videos at Kesennuma Bay using LiDAR, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 39, no. 7, doi: 10.1029/2011GL050686