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Research project

Infrastructure Monitoring using Passive Remote Imagery

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor William Powrie

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering

Research interests

  • Railway track and trackbed behaviour and performance
  • Geotechnical transportation infrastructure (earthworks, retaining walls, tunnels)
  • Groundwater and groundwater control
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Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor Joel Smethurst BEng PhD GMICE FHEA

Professor

Research interests

  • Deterioration of geotechnical infrastructure subject to both seasonal cycles of wetting and drying and applied traffic loading
  • The effect of extreme weather events and climate change on the performance of earthworks (cuttings and embankments) and flood levees
  • The effects of vegetation transpiration and root reinforcement on the performance of earthworks
Connect with Joel

Email: [email protected]

Research outputs

Current and future role of instrumentation and monitoring in the performance of transport infrastructure slopes
Joel Smethurst, Alister Smith, Sebastian Uhlemann, Chris Wooff, Jonathan Chambers, Paul Hughes, Stanislav Lenart, Haris Saroglou, Sarah Marcella Springman, Hjördis Löfroth & David Hughes, 2017, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 50(3), 271-286
DOI: 10.1144/qjegh2016-080
Type: article
Error in target-based georeferencing and registration in terrestrial laser scanning
L. Fan, J.A. Smethurst, P.M. Atkinson & W. Powrie, 2015, Computers & Geosciences, 83, 54-64
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2015.06.021
Type: article
The effect of short ground vegetation on terrestrial laser scans at a local scale
L. Fan, W. Powrie, J.A. Smethurst, P.M. Atkinson & H. Einstein, 2014, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 95, 42-52
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.06.003
Type: article
Propagation of vertical and horizontal source data errors into a TIN with linear interpolation
L Fan, J.A. Smethurst, P.M. Atkinson & W. Powrie, 2014, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 28(7), 1378-1400
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2014.889299
Type: article