Improving acoustic Doppler current profiler accuracy with wide-area differential GPS and adaptive smoothing of ship velocity

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 591-596

  Pierce, Stephen D ^a   Barth, John A ^a   Smith, Robert L ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; CURRENT VELOCITY; DGPS; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0032830776     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(1999)016<0591:IADCPA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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