Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Use of global navigation satellite systems for monitoring deformations of water-development works

  • Published:
Power Technology and Engineering Aims and scope

The feasibility of using global radio-navigation satellite systems (GNSS) to improve functional safety of high-liability water-development works — dams at hydroelectric power plants, and, consequently, the safety of the population in the surrounding areas is examined on the basis of analysis of modern publications. Characteristics for determination of displacements and deformations with use of GNSS, and also in a complex with other types of measurements, are compared. It is demonstrated that combined monitoring of deformations of the ground surface of the region, and engineering and technical structures is required to ensure the functional safety of HPP, and reliable metrologic assurance of measurements is also required to obtain actual characteristics of the accuracy and effectiveness of GNSS observations.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. H. Gupta and B. Rastogi, Dams and Earthquakes [Russian translation], Mir, Moscow (1979).

    Google Scholar 

  2. D. Gouch and W. Gouch, “Load-induced earthquakes of Lake Kariba,” Geophys. J., 21, 79–101 (1970).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. J. P. Kumar, D. V. Ramana, R. K. Chadha, C. Singh, and M. Shekar, “The relation between seismicity and water-level changes in the Koyna – Warna Region of India,” Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 813–817 (2012).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. L. Telesca, A. F. do Nascimento, F. H. R. Bezerra, and J. M. Ferreira, “Analyzing the temporal fluctuations of the reservoir-triggered seismicity observed at Asu (Brazil),” Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 805–811 (2012).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Ya. V. Naumov, “Geodetic work related to study of movements of the Earth’s crust in regions of high-dam construction,” in: Modern Movements of the Earth’s Crust [in Russian], Novosibirsk (1978), pp. 152–154.

  6. Geodetic Methods of Investigating Deformations of the Earth’s Crust on Geodynamic Proving Grounds [in Russian], Izd. ONTI TsNIIGAiK, Moscow (1985).

  7. M. N. Kulkarni, N. Radhakrishnan, and D. Rai, “Deformation studies of the Koyna Dam,” GPS World, November 1, 2004).

  8. K. W. Hudnut and J. A. Behr, “Continuous GPS monitoring of structural deformation at Pacoima Dam, California,” Seismol. Res. Lett., 69(4), 299–308 (July – August, 1998).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. J. Behr, K. W. Hudnut, and N. E. King, Monitoring Structural Deformation at Pacoima Dam, California Using Continuous GPS, http://pasadena.wr.usgs.gov/office/hudnut/docs/Behr/etal-pacoimaGPS.pdf-1999.

  10. R. Ali, P. Cross, and A. El Sharkawy, “High-accuracy real-time monitoring using low-cost GPS equipment,” in: FIG Working Week 2005 and GSDI-8, Cairo, Egypt, 16 – 21 April 2005, http://www.fig.net/pub/cairo/papers/ts43_05_ali_etal.pdf.

  11. Z. Srbinoski and Z. Bogdanovski, “Application of GNSS technology in geodetic asculation of embankment dams,” in: BALGEOS 2009, Vienna, Austria, 27 – 29 January 2010. http://balgeos.cc.bas.bg/News/materials/Presentations.present_Vienna/2010/11_Bogdanovski_Application_GNSS_technology.pdf.

  12. Y. Kalkan, R. M. Alkan, and S. Bilgi, “Deformation monitoring studies at Ataturk Dam,” FIG Congress Facing the Challenges-Building the Capacity, Sydney, Australia, 11 – 16 April 2010. http://www.fig.net/pub/fig2010/papers/fs01d%5Cfs01d_kalkan_alkan_et_al_4466.pdf.

  13. J. O. Ehiorobo and R. Irughe-Ehigiator, “Monitoring for horizontal movement in an earth dam using differential GPS,” J. Emerging Trends Engin. Appl. Sci., 6(2), 908–913 (2011).

    Google Scholar 

  14. J. Bond, D. Kim, and J. Fletcher, A Study of the Use of GPS Sensors for Structural Monitoring of the Mactaquac Dam. http://www.gemeni-navsoft.com/GPS_Structural_monitoring.pdf-2011.

  15. B. Akrour and R. Santerre, “Investigation sur le potential du systeme GPS pour l’auscultation topographique de barrages,” GEOMTICA, 52(4), 441–451 (1998).

    Google Scholar 

  16. Guidelines for Geodetic Field Observations of Deformation of Water-Development Works and Their Beds [in Russian], Minénergo SSSR – Gidroproekt im. S. Ya. Zhuka – Énergiya, Moscow (1980).

  17. V. I. Kaftan and R. A. Tatevian, Local Control Network of the Fiducial GLONASS/GPS Station, IAG, Section 1-Positioning, Commission X-Global and Regional Networks, Subcommission for Europe (EUREF ), Publication No. 9, Munchen (2000), pp. 333–337.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Geophysical Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    V. I. Kaftan

  2. JSC Institut Gidropreoekt, Moscow, Russia

    A. V. Ustinov

Authors
  1. V. I. Kaftan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. A. V. Ustinov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel’stvo, No. 12, December 2012, pp. 11 – 19.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Kaftan, V.I., Ustinov, A.V. Use of global navigation satellite systems for monitoring deformations of water-development works. Power Technol Eng 47, 30–37 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10749-013-0392-7

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10749-013-0392-7

Keywords

Search

Navigation