ADP/ADCP Applications

Applications

Examples

• San Felipe - This report describes data collected from an ADP in the Gulf of California near San Felipe, Mexico. The ADP was operated by CICESE aboard the R/V Francisco Ulloa.

• Columbia River - SonTek Hydra and ADP systems were deployed near the mouth of the Columbia River to measure movement of dredged material.

• 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.

• Waste Water Study - Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts is several ADPs to collect water current profile data as part of a study to optimize the discharge of treated waste water.

• Velocity Indexing - Describes how ADPs are being used in Everglades National Park to continuously measure discharge using a technique known as velocity-indexing.
• Hell's Canyon Discharge Data - A RiverCat mounted on a kayak collects discharge measurement data for the Idaho Power Company on the Snake River.

• San Felipe - This report describes data collected from an ADP in the Gulf of California near San Felipe, Mexico. The ADP was operated by CICESE aboard the R/V Francisco Ulloa.

• PORTS - NOAA is using side-looking ADPs to measure horizontal current profiles in support of the the PORTS (Physical Oceanography Real-Time Systems) installation near Anchorage, Alaska and in the Delaware Bay.
• Shinnecock Inlet - Describes how a side-looking (i.e., horizontal) ADP is being used to measure currents just 1.2 m below the surface.

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• 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.

• Bosphorus Straits VTMIS - SonTek ADPs and Argonaut-SLs are integrated with Endeco systems on real-time data collection platforms (buoys) as part of a Vessel Traffic Management Information System.
• SonTek ADPs are deployed at the Golden Gate Bridge, the Richmond Wharf, and the Benicia Bridge as part of the Physical Oceanographic Real-Time system (PORTS) currently installed in the San Francisco Bay area. Please check the web site of the San Francisco Marine Exchange for a description of PORTS, and to view some real-time data from the SonTek ADPs at these sites:
  • Golden Gate (outbound)
  • Richmond Wharf
  • Benicia Bridge

• San Felipe - This report describes data collected from an ADP in the Gulf of California near San Felipe, Mexico. The ADP was operated by CICESE aboard the R/V Francisco Ulloa.

• Hurricane Georges - Describes how an ADP and SonWave software were used to collect ocean-current profile data and wave data during Hurricane Georges in the Fall of 1998 off the southeast Florida coast.

• San Felipe - This report describes data collected from an ADP in the Gulf of California near San Felipe, Mexico. The ADP was operated by CICESE aboard the R/V Francisco Ulloa.
• Waste Water Study - Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts is several ADPs to collect water current profile data as part of a study to optimize the discharge of treated waste water.

• Columbia River - Three SonTek Hydras and one SonTek ADP were deployed near the mouth of the Columbia River to measure movement of dredged material.
• Velocity Indexing - Describes how ADPs are being used in Everglades National Park to continuously measure discharge using a technique known as velocity-indexing.
• RiverSurveyor - Specialized ADP system for conducting river discharge measurements.
• RiverCat - Integrated catamaran and RiverSurveyor system.

• Sediment Transport - Three SonTek Hydras and one SonTek ADP were deployed near the mouth of the Columbia River to measure movement of dredged material.

• 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.
• Waste Water Study - Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts is several ADPs to collect water current profile data as part of a study to optimize the discharge of treated waste water.

• Shinnecock Inlet - Describes how a side-looking (horizontal) ADP is being used to measure currents just 1.2 m below the surface.

• San Felipe - This report describes data collected from an ADP in the Gulf of California near San Felipe, Mexico. The ADP was operated by CICESE aboard the R/V Francisco Ulloa.

• Velocity Indexing - Describes how ADPs are being used in Everglades National Park to continuously measure discharge using a technique known as velocity-indexing.

• Directional Wave Measurements - Describes how these measurements can be made with most of our instruments.
• Hurricane Georges - Describes how an ADP and SonWave software were used to collect ocean-current profile data and wave data during Hurricane Georges in the Fall of 1998 off the southeast Florida coast.