Shallow Water Applications

Instruments

Examples

• ADP - Acoustic Doppler Profiler

• To submit your shallow water application, contact SonTek.

• ADV - Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter

• To submit your shallow water application, contact SonTek.

• Argonaut-SW (Shallow Water)

• Havasu National Wildlife Refuge - An Argonaut-SW is being used in a culvert to monitor discharge into a marsh.
• SW Goes All the Way - Evaluation of Argonaut-SW ability to collect data to the water's surface; comparison made with FlowTracker.

• FlowTracker Handheld ADV

• Arkansas Stream Gauging Program - Describes the advantages of using a FlowTracker for stream-gauging measurements.
• Hot Spring Measurements - Describes how a FlowTracker was used to take measurements in a Yellowstone National Park hot spring.
• Indiana Stream Discharge - Describes how USGS personnel used a FlowTracker to measure discharge in eight Indiana streams.
• Tow Tank Test - Describes how the FlowTracker Handheld ADV was tested at a USGS tow tank.
• USGS Discharge Measurement Policy - The following link is to a Technical Memorandum issued by the U.S. Geological Survey's Office of Surface Water. This memorandum [pdf format] describes the USGS policy on the use of the FlowTracker for discharge measurements. The information presented in this memorandum is a courtesy from the USGS, and should not be construed as an endorsement. Additionally, this memorandum is provided "as-is"; that is, the USGS does not provide support for this memorandum outside its own agency.
  http://hydroacoustics.usgs.gov/memos/OSW2004-04.pdf