Processing and Reviewing ADCP

Measurements in WinRiver II

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Geological Survey

 Steps of Processing and Reviewing
1. QA/QC tests
2. Composite tabular
3. Stick ship track
4. Velocity contour
5. Time series graph
6. Extrapolation
7. Discharge summary
8. Lock
9. Summary Report
 QA/QC
• ADCP Test Error Free?
• Compass Calibration
• Calibration and evaluation completed
• < 1 degree error in evaluation
• Important for Loop and GPS
• Moving-Bed Test
• Loop
• Requires compass calibration
• Use LC to evaluate
• Stationary
• Duration and deployment
• Use SMBA to evaluate
 Composite Tabular
• Number of Ensembles
• > 180 (unless stream is so narrow that it is not
possible to move smooth and steady and
collect this many, if some collect more
transects to increase total samples
• Lost Ensembles
• Communications error
• Bad Ensembles
• Distribution more important than
percentage
• Distribution evaluated in velocity contour
plot
• Reasonable temperature
 Offsets

• Transducer draft
correct?
• MagVar entered? Is it
reasonable? (only
needed for Qm’s made
using GPS [GGA or VTG]
as reference)
 Stick Ship Track
• Check with appropriate reference (BT, GGA, VTG)
• Track and sticks in correct direction
• Magnetic variation (GPS)
• Heading time series
• Sticks representative of flow
• Cycle through range in depths (Page Up / Page Down)
• WT thresholds
• Irregular ship track?
• BT thresholds
• BT 4-beam solutions
 Velocity Contour
• Patterns in velocity distribution
• Non uniform
• Unnatural
• WT Thresholds
• Spikes in bottom profile
• Turn on Screen Depth
• Distribution of invalid and
unmeasured areas
• Large unmeasured areas can cause
can greatly decrease measurement
quality
Thresholds can screen out data
Thresholds to screen out errors

Water Track
Water Track Error Velocity Threshold=0.5
Error Velocity +
Threshold=0.5 Bottom Track Error Velocity =0.2
Set Thresholds Based on Data
Water Speed Boat Speed Time Series
• Compare boat speed and water speed
• Look for consistency, patterns, spikes, dropouts
• Spikes that occur in BOTH water speed and boat speed are like from a boat
speed error (bottom track or GPS) – filter bottom track errors using bottom track
thresholds
• Look for lagging GPS vs Bottom Track
Error Velocity Contour
• Look for stripes that may indicate ambiguity problems
• Missing data that may indicate 3-beam solutions
• Random high values may indicate turbulence
• Can be used to determine possible values needed to filter out invalid data
Ambiguity Errors
Filtered out Ambiguity Errors

Data from previous slide with

WT Error Velocity set to 0.5
 Applying changes to multiple Transects in a
Measurement
• If a threshold is reasonable for one transect, it should be applicable to all
transects in a measurement
• To Apply a configuration value to multiple transects, right click in the box
that was changed. A small window appears with two choices.
• Select the most appropriate choice
• Notice that the font color changes to blue
• Transects need to be reprocessed for changes to take effect.
Applying changes to multiple Transects
Multiple Reflections in Bottom Track
Screen Depths
 Edge Estimates
Discharge page Edge Estimates page

• Left and right edge types

• Verify Shore distances
Edge Estimates
• Are the estimated edge discharges reasonable for this section?
 Extrapolation Method

• Evaluate Extrapolation
Method
• Loads .pd0 (transect data
file)
• Must enter draft
 Apply Extrap Observations In WinRiver II
• Must enter
discharge method
and power coeff
into WinRiver, apply
to all transects, and
reprocess
Discharge Summary (F12)
• Look at discharges for all transects
• Look for directional bias (GPS used with correct Mag Var?)
• Are edge discharges or top/bottom Q’s radically different?
• Consistent Width, area, boat speed, flow speed, flow dir.
• Reciprocal pairs used?
Outliers highlighted in red

• Example of Qm where one or more transects are > 5% different from

the mean discharge for the Qm
Subsectioning Data Files – Typically Unnecessary

Area to
be sub-
sectioned

Transect in a canal where user profiled too close to the canal walls
Reflection from Side Wall / Debris
 Step for Subsectioning
Right-click on Transect Identify new ‘starting’ and
“Transect Subsection” ‘ending’ ensemble
or hit Alt+F8
Results of Subsectioning

Modified Transect –
With Subsectioning

Area to be
sub-
sectioned
 Lock Files

• Right-click on Measurement file or

“File… Lock” from menu
• Should be used after initial processing
• Prevents accidental change by reviewer

After Qm is
Locked
Summary Report
 Most issues noticed at first glance

• Lots of lost and bad ensembles

• No Compass Calibration while using GPS

• No good bins on left edge

• Lost bottom track

Questions?