 Follow the latest news from the Rees River fieldwork on the regularly updated Blog.
New river flow stations rated with aDcp sensors have been installed and transmit their data live by satellite.  Aerials are used to measure water depth, but photos also reveal the concentration of sediment discharging into Wakatipu. |
Welcome to ReesScan
ReesScan is a international research project funded by the UK Natural Environmental Research Council and brings together a leading team of river scientists with skills in remote sensing, hydrometry and sedimentology. Our aim is to develop improved models of the processes linking channel change in braided rivers to the flood flows that drive their dynamics. Our research focuses on the highly dynamic Rees River in Otago, New Zealand.
ReesScan has developed a bespoke river surveyor; a mobile laser scanner that can acquire over a billion survey points a day. The first 'hyperscale' 3d survey of the Rees is completed. With over 7,000,000,000 points acquired in a week. Time-lapse cameras reveal the minute-by-minute behaviour of the Rees at our new gauging stations. |
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