Acoustic Doppler
Current Profiler Data Processing System
Created by:
Jessica M. Cote, Frances S. Hotchkiss, Marinna Martini, Charles
R. Denham
Additional revisions by:
Andree L. Ramsey and Stephen Ruane
Maintained and updated by:
Marinna Martini
What's New:
There is a new beta available for version 7.0. Get it here.
It includes the following noteable changes:
an important correction to the treatment of declination of EARTH
coordinate data
updated documentation on how to use this toolbox with waves data -
significant for folks using wave ADCPs
improved batch processing
As before, we will publish the documentation as a revision to USGS open
file report (USGS OFR 00-458) and release the software as official version
7.0 at that time.
The new documentation and a complete list of revisions are in the .zip file
We would appreciate any feedback to the email adcp_tools@usgs.gov
Here are pictures and drawings of a rotation table used by the USGS Coastal and Marine Program to calibrate and verify ADCPs.
ADCP Data Processing System Version 6.0
Impatient? Download the ADCP
Toolbox Version 6.0 now.
What is the ADCP Data Processing System?
Our Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Data Processing System,
or ADCP Tools for short, is a set of documented MATLAB m-files
which convert RDI data to NetCDF format, load the data into
MATLAB, process and display the data. Beam to earth rotations
can be computed if data was recorded in beam. Velocity,
intensity, % good, and correlation data as well as ancillary
data such as temperature and sound speed are available on
a beam by bin basis, and as a 3D plot.
Why not use RD Instruments' software?
RDI's software suite for processing and displaying ADCP
data is terrific if you are doing work in real time or looking
at profiles. For those of us using the ADCP for time series
work, RDI has a windows based viewer. But many of us transfer
the data to other software packages for plotting, 'massaging',
and batch processing. What we offer here is a method of
transferring to, working on, and viewing your data in MATLAB.
For more gory details on the ADCP Toobox...
The following is a recommended reading list for the ADCP
Toolbox:
- View the ADCP Data Processing System Manual (USGS
OFR 00-458)
- View website describing NetCDF
(Network Common Data Form)
Before downloading...
Please send a message to adcp_tools@usgs.gov
(ADCP tools address) if you download this software. Even
if you already signed up for the previous version, we would
like to know who is using the latest version. You may also
use the address to report bugs and send feedback. If we
know who you are, we can let you know when we have fixed
bugs!
A note about your e-mail and privacy: the USGS privacy
disclaimer states that we will not distribute your personal
information. We collect these e-mails to know a) if it's
worth our time maintaining this site and b) to notify you
of updates to the software.
Requirements:
The following is a list of items required to run the ADCP
Toolbox:
- MATLAB 7.0 or higher, from Mathworks
- The NetCDF Toolbox and mexnc, two sets of m-files for accessing NetCDF.
Mexnc is the netcdf interface going forward. The netCDF toolbox (link at
the bottom of the page) is currently frozen but is required as the ADCP
toolbox is not fully switched to mexnc yet. It can still be downloaded from http://mexcdf.sourceforge.net/downloads/. The ADCP toolbox is very
dependent on the netCDF toolbox and we are reviewing where to go from here.
- The ADCP Toolbox
6.0, a set of m-files for processing RDI ADCP Data.
- Click here if you need WinZip
Helpful Hints
- View the readme file to review
the setup and installation instructions
- View the list of m-files
in the ADCP Toolbox
- View the list of revisions
and additions for the current version.
Caveats:
- These files are tailored to our studies here at the Woods
Hole Field Center. As we receive feed back (and find the
time) we will add more features, streamline code, improve
documentation, etc.
- Understand that our primary role for the USGS is to carry
out field studies and we do not have a huge staff to maintain
software. We will, however, try to respond to issues as
our field schedule and priorities allow us the time.
Why are we doing this?
- What we get from you is insight into methodology and improvements
to the software.
- We hope that you will contribute modules for others to
use, we will post submitted contributions here.
Older versions of the ADCP Toolbox
Here are links to the older versions of this work. We no
longer actively support these versions or their webpages.
But the links are provided in case anyone needs an older
version of something or is just curious to see the evolutionary
process to the ADCP Processing System...
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