Because high suspended sediment concentrations (SSCs) above 10,000 mg L −1 (or ppm) are frequent during severe typhoons and rainfall events in Taiwan, appropriate SSC sampling for suspended sediment load quantification is critical for formulating water soil conservation strategies, understanding scour and erosion characteristics, implementing sedimentation and sluicing operations, ensuring sound water supply management, and addressing environmental ecological problems. However, predicting the appropriate timing for sediment sampling is a complicated task, and manual sampling is risky during storms. Therefore, field automated surrogates for SSC measurement are required to overcome these limitations. Among these automated surrogates are optical turbidity meter-based methods (
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