OSW Hydroacoustics Reports

Electronic versions of selected reports concerning the application of acoustic profilers are provided below. Some of these reports were written by personnel from other agencies, but are used with permission of the author. Please make sure that you cite these reports if you use them in any of your publications.

Technical Support and Guidance Memos - Note that the USGS, Office of Surface Water (OSW) also provides on the application of acoustic profilers and other acoustic velocity measurement devices.

Featured Electronic Reports

Field Evaluation Of Boat-Mounted Acoustic Doppler Instruments Used To Measure Streamflow by David S. Mueller. Presented at IEEE CurrentMeasurement Technology Conference, March 2003.
Tethered Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Platforms for Measuring Streamflowby Michael S. Rehmel, James A. Stewart, and Scott E. Morlock. Published as U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-237, 2003.
Discharge Measurements using a Broad-band Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler by Michael Simpson. Published as U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-01, 2002.
Feasibility of Acoustic Doppler Velocity Meters for the Production of Discharge Records from U.S. Geological Survey Streamflow-Gaging Stations by Scott E. Morlock, Hieu T. Nguyen, and Jerry H. Ross. Published by U.S. Geological Survey, 2002.

USGS ADCP quality assurance plan. Published by U.S. Geological Survey, 1995.
Progress report on Tow Tank Testing of Acoustic Profilers. Internal USGS report, 2000.
This internal progress report is provided for information purposes only and is not an official publication of the USGS.
Evaluation of Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Measurements of River Discharge. Published by U.S. Geological Survey, 1996.
Analysis of Open-Channel Velocity Measurements Collected With an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler. Published by U.S. Geological Survey, 1996.
Effect of Temporal Resolution on the Accuracy of ADCP Measurements
Towing Basin Speed Calibration of Acoustic Doppler Current Profiling Instruments

2003 USGS Surface Water Conference papers

Status Report on Bottom-Tracking ADCPs and ADPs by David Mueller -- View | Download

ADCP Measurement of Suspended Sediment in the Tidal Hudson River by Elizabeth Nystrom -- View | Download

Acoustic Backscatter as a Surrogate for Suspended Sediment Concentration by Elizabeth Nystrom -- View | Download

Components of a Quality Acoustics Program-Process by Kevin Oberg -- View | Download

Horizontal Acoustic Doppler Velocity Meters, "Sidelookers" by John Shelton -- View | Download

USGS HMEM Conference papers

The following papers were published and presented by USGS personnel at the Hydraulic Measurements and Experimental Methods Conference (HMEM), Estes Park, Colorado, July 29 - August 1, 2002. For more information on the conference, visit the conference Web pages.

Hydroacoustics

Field Assessment of Acoustic-Doppler Based Discharge Measurements by David S. Mueller
A Preliminary Evaluation of Near-Transducer Velocities Collected with Low-Blank Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler by Jeff Gartner
Use of Acoustic Doppler Instruments for Measuring Discharge in Streams with Appreciable Sediment Transport by David S. Mueller
In Search of Easy-to-Use Methods for Calibrating ADCP's for Velocity and Discharge Measurements by Kevin Oberg
Hydroacoustic Current Meters for the Measurement of Discharge in Shallow Rivers and Streams by Scott E. Morlock and Gary T. Fisher
Discharge Measurements in Shallow Urban Streams Using a Hydroacoustic Current Meter by Gary T. Fisher
Tidal Flux Variation in the Lower Pearl River and Lake Pontchartrain Estuaries of Mississippi and Louisiana by D. Phil Turnipseed
Use of an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) to Measure Hypersaline Bidirectional Discharge by Kevin K. Johnson and Brian L. Loving
Velocity and Sediment Concentration Measurements over Bedforms in Sand-Bed Rivers by Robert R. Holmes, Jr. and Marcelo H. Garcia

Non-contact measurement methods

A Proposed Radar-Based Streamflow Measurement System For The San Joaquin River At Vernalis, California by R. Mason, Jr., John E. Costa, Ralph T. Cheng, Kurt R. Spicer, F. Peter Haeni, Nick B. Melcher, William J. Plant, William C. Keller, and Ken Hayes
An Approach To Estimating River Discharge From Space by David M. Bjerklie, Charles J. Vorosmarty, Carl H. Bolster, S. Lawrence Dingman, and Russell G. Congalton

Other

Comparability And Accuracy Of Fluvial-Sediment Data - A View From The U.S. Geological Survey by John R. Gray, G. Douglas Glysson and David S. Mueller

References

A selection of references to reports and other documents related to the application of acoustic profilers are available for perusal. Several of these reports are available on-line, either in HTML or in PDF format. References are also available on Web pages maintained by manufacturers of acoustic profilers and acoustic velocity meters.

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