Towing basin speed calibration of acoustic Doppler current profiling instruments

Joint Conference on Water Resource Engineering and Water Resources Planning and Management 2000: Building Partnerships

Volumn 104, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Shih, H H ^a   Payton, C ^a   Sprenke, J ^a   Mero, T ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic measurement; Basins; Calibration; Doppler systems; Sensors; Speed; Towing; Water flow

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT; ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; DOPPLER SYSTEMS; ERROR SOURCES; PERCENTAGE ERROR; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SENSOR CALIBRATION; SPEED DIFFERENCE; SPEED MEASUREMENT; STANDARD DEVIATION; TOWING BASIN; WATER FLOWS;

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTICS; CALIBRATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; PLANNING; SENSORS; SPEED; STATISTICS; WATER RESOURCES EXPLORATION;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 74949116087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40517(2000)317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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