Handbook for Predicting Stream Meander Migration and Supporting Software

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

doi:10.17226/23346

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Handbook for Predicting Stream Meander Migration and Supporting Software

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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 533: Handbook for Predicting Stream Meander Migration describes the application of a stream prediction methodology and provides illustrated examples for applying the methodology. The handbook includes NCHRP CD-ROM 48 that contains an ArcView-based data logger and channel migration predictor.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web Document 67: Methodology for Predicting Channel Migration documents and presents the results of a study to develop NCHRP Report 533: Handbook for Predicting Stream Meander Migration, a stand-alone handbook for predicting stream meander migration using aerial photographs and maps. A companion product to NCHRP Web Document 67 is NCHRP CD 49: Archived River Meander Bend Database, a four-CD-ROM set that contains a database of 141 meander sites containing 1,503 meander bends on 89 rivers in the United States.

A summary of NCHRP Report 533 that was published in a November-December 2004 issue of the TR News is available.

Contributor(s): National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Transportation Research Board

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97 pages | 8.5 x 11 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/23346

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-vii
Chapter 1 - Introduction and Applications	1-4
Chapter 2 - Background	5-13
Chapter 3 - Screening and Classification of Meandering Streams	14-16
Chapter 4 - Photogrammetry	17-22
Chapter 5 - Map and Aerial Photo Comparison Techniques	23-25
Chapter 6 - Sources of Error and Limitations	26-29
Chapter 7 - Methodology	30-46
Chapter 8 - Illustrated Examples	47-63
Chapter 9 - Summary	64-64
References	65-66
Appendix A - Downloading Microsoft TerraServer Images from the Internet	67-74
Appendix B - Delineating Banklines and Bends	75-86
Appendix C - Instructions for Installing Data Logger and Channel Migration Predictor and Description of the Circle-Fitting Algorithm	87-87
Appendix D - Tips for Delineating Banklines from Historic Aerial Photos for Use with the Channel Migration Predictor	88-91
Appendix E - Predicting Change in Migration Direction	92-94
Appendix F - Glossary	95-97
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications	98-98

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