@article{fdi:010074951, title = {{T}he use of photogrammetry to construct time series of vegetation permeability to water and seed transport in agricultural waterways}, author = {{V}inatier, {F}. and {D}ollinger, {J}. and {R}udi, {G}. and {F}eurer, {D}enis and {B}elaud, {G}. and {B}ailly, {J}. {S}.}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{T}errestrial vegetation has numerous positive effects on the main regulating services of agricultural channels, such as seed retention, pollutant mitigation, bank stabilization, and sedimentation, and this vegetation acts as a porous medium for the flow of matter through the channels. {T}his vegetation also limits the water conveyance in channels, and consequently is frequently removed by farmers to increase its porosity. {H}owever, the temporal effects of these management practices remain poorly understood. {I}ndeed, the vegetation porosity exhibits important temporal variations according to the maintenance schedule, and the water level also varies with time inside a given channel section according to rainfall events or irrigation practices. {T}o maximise the impacts of vegetation on agricultural channels, it is now of primary importance to measure vegetation porosity according to water level over a long time period rather than at a particular time. {T}ime series of such complex vegetation characteristics have never been studied using remote sensing methods. {H}ere, we present a new approach using the {S}tructure-from-{M}otion approach using a {M}ulti-{V}iew {S}tereo algorithm ({S}f{M}-{MVS}) technique to construct time series of herbaceous vegetation porosity in a real agricultural channel managed by five different practices: control, dredging, mowing, burning, and chemical weeding. {W}e post-processed the time series of point clouds to create an indicator of vegetation porosity for the whole section and of the surface of the channel. {M}owing and chemical weeding are the practices presenting the most favorable temporal evolutions of the porosity indicators regarding flow events. {B}urning did not succeed in restoring the porosity of the channel due to quick recovery of the vegetation and dephasing of the maintenance calendar with the flow events. {T}he high robustness of the technique and the automatization of the {S}f{M}-{MVS} calculation together with the post-processing of the point clouds should help in handling time series of {S}f{M}-{MVS} data for applications in ecohydrology or agroecology.}, keywords = {{DSM} ; hydrochory ; porosity ; {S}f{M}-{MVS} ; friction ; drainage network ; {FRANCE} ; {ZONE} {MEDITERRANEENNE}}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{R}emote {S}ensing}, volume = {10}, numero = {12}, pages = {art. 2050 [18 p.]}, ISSN = {2072-4292}, year = {2018}, DOI = {10.3390/rs10122050}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010074951}, }