Instructional Videos

CTEMPs offers instructional videos to train instrument users on how to assemble field deployable fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing systems (FD-DTS). While not yet nominated for the Academy Awards, these videos will help you assemble and operate CTEMPs instruments.

We recommend that you view these videos BEFORE heading to the field and with the instruments unpacked in your laboratory to thoroughly familiarize yourself with their assembly and operation. Please head over to our YouTube channel "ctemps" for access to all of our instructional videos and other resource videos: CTEMPS. You can also find recordings of past workshops on DTS, UAS and DAS on our channel.

Videos

  1. Scott Tyler (UNR): Distributed Temperature Sensing using Fiber Optics - The Basics!
  2. John Selker (OSU): Some Practical Matters in applying DTS
  3. Ming Xiao (Pennsylvania State University): In-Situ Monitoring of Permafrost Using Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS)
  4. Emma Reid (UC Irvine): Distributed Temperature Sensing for Oceanographic Applications
  5. Maria Klepikova (University of Rennes): DTS-Based investigation techniques to image subsurface properties
  6. Troy Gilmore (University of Nebraska-Lincoln): Comparison of groundwater discharge estimates with and without guidance from FO-DTS

Part 1: Introductions and Objectives, Recent Advances in DTS – Part 1 (1-4), DTS Industrial Partners (5-9), Discussion (10)

  1. Olivier Bour, Nataline Simon (University of Rennes): Active-DTS in sandbox experiments to validate groundwater fluxes measurements
  2. Troy Gilmore (University of Nebraska-Lincoln): Comparison of groundwater discharge estimates with and without guidance from FO-DTS
  3. Rosealea Bond (UCSC and NMFS): Using DTS to monitor environmental variability in a seasonally-closed California estuary 
  4. Christoph Thomas, Karl Lapo (University of Bayreuth): Sensing atmospheric turbulent wind direction and speed
  5. Pierre Clément (Febus Optics): Distributed temperature solutions : selecting the right technology (53:54 - 1:03:00)
  6. Agatha Podrasky (Silixa): Basic principles of Silixa’s distributed temperature sensor solutions (1:03:10 - 1:13:47)
  7. Michael Montgomery (AP Sensing): Overcoming DTS Performance Uncertainty: Raman Backscatter Temperature Measurement Technology With Unique Single-Receiver Stability (1:15:31 - 1:24:22)
  8. Doug Norton (AFL): Fiber Optic Cable Selection Considerations for Sensing (1:24:35 - 1:34:52)
  9. Etienne Friedrich (Solifos): Fibers and cable terminations for DTS environmental monitoring (1:34:58 - 1:45:17)
  10. Discussion (1:45:17 - 1:55:32 

Part 2: Recent Advances in DTS – Part 2 (1-4), DTS Basics (5-6), Calibration and Experimental Design (7-8)

  1. Dante Fratta (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Monitoring the response of a district scale geothermal field using a DTS array
  2. Kristen Davis (UC Irvine): Internal wave dynamics on the inner shelf - a new perspective from DTS measurements
  3. Ted Scambos (UColo Boulder); Scott Tyler (UNR): An automated DTS Installation on the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, Antarctica: Early results 
  4. Chris Gabrielli (SelkerMetrics): DTS as a means to monitor sedimentation rates continuously over large areas
  5. Scott Tyler (UNR): Distributed Temperature Sensing using Fiber Optics - The Basics!
  6. John Selker (OSU): Some Practical Matters in applying DTS
  7. Scott Tyler (UNR): DTS Calibration: Challenges and Tools
  8. Bart Schilperoort (Delft University of Technology): Calibrating with confidence using the dtscalibration python package 

Part 3: Tips and Lessons from the Field (1-3), How to access CTEMPs (4), Closing (5)

  1. Luca Schenato (National Research Council - Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection): DTS for geophysical applications: a brief assessment of suitability
  2. Marty Briggs (USGS): Efficient deployment of cables and analysis of data with the USGS ‘DTS GUI’
  3. Chadi Sayde (North Carolina State University): Actively Heated Fiber Optics DTS: Lessons From the Field
  4. Cara Walter (OSU), Chris Kratt (UNR): How to access CTEMPs Instrumentation
  5. John Selker (OSU), Scott Tyler (UNR): Closing (59:10 - 1:03:30)