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Sensit Wind Eroding Mass Sensor |
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Erosion monitoring solutions |
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Field Site Requirements
Minimum Erosion Site Equipment Requirements
This minimum field site configuration would be used for movement and
monitoring purposes. Also usable for determining source areas. Suggested
vendors are included in the Equipment Sources section. However, we are not implying these vendors are
superior to any other vendors. Sensit company only supplies the
wind eroding mass sensor at this time.
 | 1ea Sensit eroding mass sensor - (Sensit Company) |
| 1ea anemometer (wind speed sensor) - (R M Young Company) |
| 1ea wind direction sensor - (R M Young Company) |
| 1ea sand catcher - (Custom Products (Dr. W. Fryrear), Big Spring, TX, USA) |
| 1ea data system - (Campbell Scientific) |
| 1ea tower - (easily home-made tripod using 1-1/2" conduit tubing) |
Research Erosion Site Equipment Requirements
This research field site configuration would be suitable for basic wind erosion
equation development (WEE). The calculation of U* (Ustar, or friction
velocity) requires a minimum of three anemometers. We suggest
using four per site because the probability of one going bad is
high.
| 1ea Sensit eroding mass sensor - (Sensit Company) |
| 3ea anemometer (wind speed sensors) - (R M Young Company) |
| 1ea wind direction sensor - (R M Young Company) |
| 1ea air temperature sensor - (Campbell Scientific) |
| 1ea sand catcher - (Custom Products (Dr. W. Fryrear), Big Spring, TX, USA) |
| 1ea data system - (Campbell Scientific) |
| 1ea tower - (easily home-made tripod using 1-1/2" conduit tubing) |
Do not assume everything will simply work fine. Make sure you have recorded (and looked at) at least 4 hours of test data in the lab before setting up your site in the field. The field environment has few facilities to repair or rebuild. And more often than not, your data acquisition program may be less than desirable.
Always have backup anemometers. All anemometer bearings prematurely fail from dust.