How to Get the Most of Your Transducer Data
Webinar Overview
Consultants and government agencies dealing with environmental and water resources issues across the United States install transducers in monitoring wells to collect millions of groundwater level measurements daily. Typically, the analytical focus is on water level fluctuation over time. Such a focus deals only with long-term trends or, at best, a signature of a nearby pumping well. The information that can be extracted from the time domain is only a small part of a much larger picture; this is due to the limitations of tools that analyze data in the time domain. By switching to the frequency domain and using signal processing tools, it is possible to extract a full range of valuable information.
Join In-Situ and Ramboll Environ to learn how to get the most out of your transducer data through new methodologies using signal processing tools.
After attending this webinar, you will understand how to:
- Determine the optimal sampling frequency for transducers recording groundwater fluctuations (wells and springs) in environmental and water resources fields
- Determine hydraulic parameters of confined aquifers without extracting water
- Determine the existence or absence of an over-exploitation for porous and karstic aquifers
- Determine exploitable volumes of water for porous and karstic aquifers
- Determine the impact of nearby pumping wells on wells and springs (porous and karstic aquifers)
- Remove/filter noise for an impacted well through the identification and removal of the signature of a pumping well(s) or tide(s) (ocean or earth)
- Anyone who is using and/or drawing conclusions from transducer data
- Those who are interested in learning how to dig deeper and get more information out of their data sets
Presenter: Dr. Farid Achour
Dr. Farid Achour is a Senior Science Advisor at Ramboll Environ US Corporation located in Irvine, California. He has over 20 years of experience as a groundwater hydrologist, with particular emphasis in hydrogeologic mapping, analysis of groundwater flow systems, quantitative analysis of groundwater flow and solute transport. He has experience in the synthesis of hydrogeologic data, the evaluation and protection of groundwater resources, and the analysis and design of remedial measures both in porous and fractured medias. Also includes geochemical modeling, geostatistics, statistics and data mining applied to environmental data, GIS and computer applications. Dr. Achour has academic and professional experience in a variety of environmental disciplines and has worked on water and environmental related projects throughout Africa, Europe, and North and South America. He has authored and co-authored over 30 technical papers, including two book chapters, and sits on the Editorial Board of the Environmental Forensics Journal.