Streambed analysis

The previous crew from UCL (crew 127) began a project with the objective of establishing a model of the past flow for a dry streambed as the conditions would be really close to the ones encountered on Mars and could provide interesting observations. We plan to continue and develop this project. The project ended with a mapping of the studied area and an estimation of the past flow. We want to go further with the data collecting and the model obtained last year. By using more parameters and more accurate data, the objective would be to determine the infiltration proportion and characteristics of the flow such as discharge and duration. Those additional parameters would be the nature of the soil, the size and volume of sediments, the shape of the bed, etc. They would be implemented with a MATLAB program to obtain a coherent model of the flow and its origin. By analyzing the duration and discharge, we could obtain a global estimation of the water transiting by this bed over a longer period of time. The final objective would be a 3D mapping of the bed and its characteristics: volume, speed and infiltration