2.8. Tools Used in Demos

The following pages had links to them in this section. They provide more detail about:

tools used to calibrate or correct datasets:

• patch_hcorr.py, to interpolate heading corrections if necessary

• transducer angle calibration (“phase”)

• scale factor (sometimes called “amplitude”)

• horizontal offset between ADCP and GPS

using dataviewer.py in edit mode:

• how to recognize underway_bias

• an obsolete editing threshold called “jitter”

important commandline tools:

• quick_adcp.py, which underlies all CODAS processing

• quick_web.py, to make a web page with velocity sections

less-used commandline tools:

• how to surgically excise profile flags from the ascii files

PINGDATA processing

• PINGDATA processing

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