SeaSonde Radial Release 7 Overview CODAR Ocean Sensors, Ltd. O Friday, October 11, 13 C E A N S E N S O R S CODAR File Structure Friday, October 11, 13 CODAR Docs Folder = PLEASE READ !!! Friday, October 11, 13 Site Computer Friday, October 11, 13 Applications for System Configuration • SeaSondeRadialSetUp (SSRS) • SeaSondeController (SSC) • Archivalist • SeaSonde Transponder Friday, October 11, 13 SeaSondeRadialSetUp • UI = Standard, Detailed, Advanced and Overview tabs • Standard = set operating parameters, site location, CF, resolution • Detailed = set averaging and output times • Basic Help text, to the right of the UI, in green. Friday, October 11, 13 SeaSondeController • Application for communicating to receiver and controlling the system • R7U1 = Separate apps for configuring receiver and transponder • Monitor system parameters; power and status report of receiver, forward / reflected power of transmitter, temperatures. Friday, October 11, 13 Archivalist • UI for setting up data Archiving • Default settings should work out of the box for most users. • Can be custom configured by users, though not needed. Friday, October 11, 13 Applications for Acquiring and Processing Data • SeaSondeAcquisition (SSA) • CSPro • RunSpectraAnalysis • SpectraOfflineProcessing Friday, October 11, 13 SeaSonde Acquisition • Receives raw data from the hardware • Voltage data from sea surface is communicated to the Mac computer via USB - Time Series data • FFT is applied to the Time Series to get Range Series data • Second FFT is appled to the Range Series to get Doppler Calculations • Final product of SSA is Cross Spectra data, CSQ files Friday, October 11, 13 CSQ files Example:Standard-Range • 512 Doppler bins at 2 Hz sweep rate • Gives 256 seconds of data which results in 4.3 minute CSQ files Friday, October 11, 13 CSPro • CSPro averages CSQ data to get the final Cross Spectra file, CSS • Two or more CSQ files are needed to get a CSS • Standard range, averages 15 minutes (4 CSQ files), and outputs a CSS every ten minutes Friday, October 11, 13 AnalyzeSpectra • • • Averages CSS • Final data from radial sites is the radial vector file Calculates wave data Places radial velocity data at bearings using the MUSIC algorithm Friday, October 11, 13 SpectraOfflineProcessing Friday, October 11, 13 Data and Viewers Friday, October 11, 13 • SpectraPlotterMap (SPM) for CSQ & CSS Waves, Diagnostics • SeaDisplay (SD) for Radial, Total Vector • WaveDisplay for Wave files • DiagDisplay for Diagnostics file SpectraPlotterMap • View CSQ and CSS binary files • View sea-echo information; qualitative and quantitative • • Important diagnostic tool UI for changing First Order Settings Friday, October 11, 13 SeaDisplay 7(new) • View radials (.ruv) and totals (.tuv) • • Make movies of currents • New UI with dynamically changing settings View Radial metrics and data density distributions Friday, October 11, 13 Radial ascii file • Final Data product of the remote sites is the ruv radial file • Easy to use with data analysis programs such as matlab • Create time series for tidal analysis and model inputs Friday, October 11, 13 Meta-data Column headers Friday, October 11, 13 WaveDisplay • View wave files (.wls), ascii files • Significant wave height, period, wave direction, and wind direction Friday, October 11, 13 DiagDisplay • Stat files, ascii files • .rdt = data diagnostics • .hdt = system diagnostics Friday, October 11, 13 SeaSondeReportsMedium • Create Reports file at start-up and any time there is an issue you are contacting CODAR Support • Contains Configs, Diags, CSS, radial data for diagnosis of problems Friday, October 11, 13 SeaSonde Radial Webserver Friday, October 11, 13
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