ADP Animation

Here is an animated example of how ADPs collect data...

This simplified example shows the display of data corresponding to the various depth cells within the water column. Each depth cell contains the average of the data collected by a series of transmitted sound pulses ("pings"). In reality: (a) several pings are transmitted by the ADP each second, (b) the pings are reflected back to the ADP after bouncing off particulate matter in the water, and (c) the pings are processed (i.e., "averaged") by the ADP for recording and display.

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