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Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing at Fish Creek, Wyoming

By Water Resources Mission Area
This fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing (FO-DTS) Fish Creek Kirk Miller (USGS) comparing discharge meas. with fiber-optic Cheryl Miller, Jim Constantz, and Jerrod Wheeler (USGS) Fiber-Optic The fiber-optic cable was placed on the creek bed by hand. Steel tent stakes pounded into the stream bed keeps cable in place The cable is wrapped in tubing and taped and attached to stack GPS location, length along cable, water depth, and a picture were take Placement of the cable overland aided in real-time visualization This shows hand-installing a well to understand ground water Box wit fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing system with laptop