Bottom-Tracking Applications

Instruments

Examples

• ADP - Acoustic Doppler Profiler

• Bottom-Track Accuracy Test - See results of test conducted at the Offshore Model Basin.
• Moving Vessel Applications - Describes how an ADP can be used with either bottom-tracking or GPS data on board a moving vessel to remove vessel motion from water-current data.
• Poverty Bay - Describes how a bottom-tracking ADP on a small vessel was used in New Zealand to collect complex circulation currents near a sewage outfall.

• RiverSurveyor - Integrated ADP system

• Bottom-Track Accuracy Test - See results of test conducted at the Offshore Model Basin.
• Discharge Demonstration - Describes a discharge demonstration conducted for USGS and CDWR using adjacently-mounted profilers.