3. UHDAS Operations Guide

This guide is designed for marine technicians who are operating a UHDAS installation on a ship, and for scientists sailing with UHDAS.

Contents:

• 3.1. Using UHDAS at sea (for scientists)
  • 3.1.1. CODAS+UHDAS overview
  • 3.1.2. UHDAS website overview
  • 3.1.3. Network Shares
  • 3.1.4. Cruise directory contents
  • 3.1.5. Accessing data in the cruise directory
  • 3.1.6. CODAS data conventions
  • 3.1.7. CODAS+UHDAS metadata
  • 3.1.8. UHDAS Data Policy
• 3.2. Running UHDAS at sea (for technicians)
  • 3.2.1. Best Practices
  • 3.2.2. UHDAS_GuiTour (longer)
  • 3.2.3. ADCP instructions (shorter)
  • 3.2.4. UHDAS cheatsheets (for printing)
• 3.3. Monitoring the System
  • 3.3.1. Status: Monitoring at Sea
  • 3.3.2. Status: Daily Email – Monitoring from Shore
  • 3.3.3. Ticketing Flags
• 3.4. Troubleshooting
  • 3.4.1. Troubleshooting Serial Feeds (beware ZMQ)
  • 3.4.2. Interpreting Accurate Heading NMEA messages
  • 3.4.3. Troubleshooting Speedlog
  • 3.4.4. NTP diagnostics
  • 3.4.5. Hopelessly Confused message
  • 3.4.6. Gui is Hung?
  • 3.4.7. Diagnostic tools
• 3.5. HOWTOs
  • 3.5.1. HOWTO talk to the ADCP (tk_terminal.py)
  • 3.5.2. HOWTO do a transducer angle calibration
  • 3.5.3. HOWTO temporarily stop email from going out
  • 3.5.4. HOWTO temporarily remove one ADCP from the mix (eg sending it in for repair)
  • 3.5.5. HOWTO convert UHDAS dates
  • 3.5.6. HOWTO use only 3 beams if one is bad
• 3.6. UHDAS Computer
  • 3.6.1. Files used and created by UHDAS GUI
  • 3.6.2. Logfiles, Flags, and other status files
  • 3.6.3. Files that should be updating
  • 3.6.4. Processing and Plotting: Repeaters
  • 3.6.5. UHDAS state summary
  • 3.6.6. Configuration Files (serial logging, processing)
  • 3.6.7. How to run UHDAS without a GUI
  • 3.6.8. Installation checklist