Velocity Mapping Toolbox (VMT): A processing and visualization suite for moving-vessel ADCP measurements

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1244-1260

  Parsons, D R ^a   Jackson, P R ^b   Czuba, J A ^b   Engel, F L ^c   Rhoads, B L ^c   Oberg, K A ^b   Best, J L ^c   Mueller, D S ^b   Johnson, K K ^b   Riley, J D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler; Flow; Velocity

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGY; ADCP MEASUREMENTS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; DISCHARGE MEASUREMENTS; FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

DOPPLER EFFECT; MAPPING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VELOCITY; VISUALIZATION;

DATA HANDLING;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; FLOW VELOCITY; MAPPING; SOFTWARE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VISUALIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883449452     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3367     Document Type: Article

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