The course will introduce you to how ADCP instruments work. You will learn how to collect river discharge measurements with ADCPs from both Teledyne RD Instruments and Sontek. You will work with data we previously collected using remote-controlled boats and unpowered deployment platforms, with a strong focus on the processing and validation of the data. You will also learn how to troubleshoot problem data files. We encourage you to submit your data for analysis within the course.
Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) offer a well-proven and highly effective method for River Discharge Monitoring. ADCPs can help you to obtain accurate discharge measurements in a variety of sites ranging from small streams to the largest of rivers.
You will also learn how ADCP data can help enable the effective use of other river flow measurement techniques, such as surface velocity methods.
Learning objectives:
By the end of the course, you will be able to…
- Understand the principles of ADCP technology
- Understand how to use ADCP instruments for river discharge measurements
- Choose the best instrument for a given site
- Decide how and where to make a discharge measurement with an ADCP
- Undertake river discharge measurements with an ADCP
- Review, process and validate ADCP river discharge measurements
- Interpret and analyse data from difficult sites and conditions
- Understand how information collected with ADCPs can help enable the use of other river measurement methods, such as surface velocity techniques
- Manage the practical aspects of launching an ADCP device and extracting its data
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