Xylem SonTek River Surveyor S5, System Manual

Page 1: ...ic medium or machine readable form without prior consent in writing from SonTek a Xylem brand Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this manual However SonTek a Xylem brand makes no war...

Page 2: ...urveyor Live v1 50 support 01 OCT 2010 SmartPulseHD Release FCC and CE Declarations 15 OCT 2010 RiverSurveyor Stationary Live v1 00 support 28 MAR 2011 Software Updates including Loop Method 26 SEP 20...

Page 3: ...iver Surveyor Product Name River Surveyor S5 River Surveyor M9 Conforms to the following European Union Council Directives and Standards as of 9 01 10 FCC PART 15 SUBPART B EMC DIRECTIVE 2004 108 EC E...

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Page 7: ...and Setup 9 3 1 Overview 9 3 2 Configuration A Direct Connection with S5 or M9 Core System 9 3 2 1 Description 9 3 2 2 Hardware Setup 9 3 3 Configuration B Bluetooth Communications 10 3 3 1 Descripti...

Page 8: ...m 30 6 6 Site Information 31 6 7 System Settings 32 6 8 Measurement Settings 34 6 9 Pre Measurement Tests and Utilities 35 6 9 1 Compass Calibration 35 6 9 2 System Test 40 6 9 3 Set Time 40 6 9 4 Bea...

Page 9: ...4 Tab Windows Selection 75 8 3 5 Tab Window Display 75 8 3 6 Discharge measurement summary 79 8 3 7 Processing toolbox 80 8 4 Hot Keys Accelerators 84 8 5 Processing Data Files Step by Step 84 Append...

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Page 11: ...rencing GPS and the vertical beam Multi frequency Multiple acoustic frequencies fused with precise bandwidth control make for the most robust and continuous shallow to deep measurements ever for an AD...

Page 12: ...the office or field Review and analyze data faster Load view and analyze multiple data sets simultaneously all from your PC Flexible Mobile Device operation RiverSurveyor runs on both PC and Mobile d...

Page 13: ...system includes Part Description Qty Multi Frequency ADP S5 or M9 1 User Software Disc 1 ADP QuickStart Guide 1 Power Comm Cable Std 10m 1 Power Supply 18V 1 AC Power Cord 1 The S5 and M9 ADPs integr...

Page 14: ...Hz transducers and four 1 0 MHz transducers A 0 5 MHz vertical acoustic beam echo sounder provides depth data Figure 2 M9 ADP Features The four brass inserts on top of the ADP can be used to secure th...

Page 15: ...the component is functioning while a red orange light would indicate that the system is not functioning Below is a description for the LED labels Table 1 PCM LED Descriptions Label Description PWR Po...

Page 16: ...eceiver built into the PCM The Differential GPS DGPS option does not require a Base Station but additional hardware is required for the PCM Some general rules of thumb for connection times for the var...

Page 17: ...the ADP The Base Station should be in a fixed location on shore A direct line of sight is best for communication The maximum communication range is about 2 km Figure 6 shows the details for the Base...

Page 18: ...designed to be used with the S5 and M9 ADP systems It has easy to use drop in installation mounts for the ADP and the PCM Simply insert the components into their corresponding mounts and tighten the t...

Page 19: ...ble con nection to the PC and the external power supply Figure 8 The dashed line indicates the use of an optional third party external GPS The use of an external GPS precludes the use of all wire less...

Page 20: ...nal GPS needs to have the following settings Communications Protocol 38400 N 8 1 Data Rate 10 Hz GPS String VTG GGA To avoid possible communication issues it is always recom mended to turn off or disa...

Page 21: ...to USB adapter is provided for PCs without a built in serial port The Dongle comes preconfigured and should be recognized as plug and play 3 Be sure that the Bluetooth Communications is activated Sta...

Page 22: ...Communications 3 4 1 Description Figure 12 shows the RiverSurveyor system with wireless communications in this case Spread Spectrum communications using a PCM on a small unmanned boat such as the SonT...

Page 23: ...nector to the PC and the 8 pin female connector of the cable to the 8 pin male connector on the radio communications box 3 Attach the external antenna not pictured to the base radio box 4 Turn on Syst...

Page 24: ...DP on the rover The RTK GPS correction is transmitted at 1 hz from the RTK Base Station to the unmanned boat via Spread Spectrum communications The SonTek Hydroboard is used below for conceptual pur p...

Page 25: ...n three possible ways Directly to the PCM via a cable for a direct connect configuration Connect to the PCM via Bluetooth communications Connect to the PCM via SS communications For the wireless commu...

Page 26: ...hat the RTK Base Station be installed within 2 kilometers of the PCM The RTK Base Station setup is described below Figure 16 Hardware for RTK GPS Option with Bluetooth Communications RTK Base Station...

Page 27: ...ver securely tighten both thumb screws to maintain a waterproof seal 6 Connect the SS Radio antenna male connector to the female connector in the RTK Base Station 7 Plug the male connector of the Base...

Page 28: ...ctor of the coaxial cable to the male connection on the receiving antenna Run the coaxial cable through the antenna mast to the bottom collecting all ex cess cable from the antenna mast 2 Attach the G...

Page 29: ...to position on the Hydroboard in the rectangular cut out in the mounting bracket and tighten its thumb screws 2 Insert the ADP face transducers looking down into the circular hole in the Hydroboard St...

Page 30: ...into the female connector em bedded in the PCM until the face of the cable is flush with the female connector tighten the connection with the protective locking sleeve Figure 20 An Assembled SonTek Hy...

Page 31: ...onnector used in the field is susceptible to damage and reasonable precautions should be taken Inspect all ADP cables and connectors for damage on a regular basis and replace if necessary GPS cables a...

Page 32: ...he PCM is completely dry before inserting the charged battery pack Do not try to modify the bat tery packs shipped with the product Third party battery packs will not be supported Any dam age incurred...

Page 33: ...is strong enough to withstand the onsite conditions 5 3 2 Communications Communications are vital for remote measurements There are three types of communications connections to the ADP Direct Connect...

Page 34: ...rform a compass calibration rotate the ADP through two complete circles while varying pitch and roll angles as much as possible Each rotation must take no less than one full minute to complete If the...

Page 35: ...emory available on the recorder prior to making a discharge measurement It is suggested to download files and format the recorder between measurement sites All files must be downloaded from the ADP fo...

Page 36: ...filer At depths lower than this minimum the water velocity and therefore the discharge must be estimated based on the velocity and depth measurements on the edges The Start and End Edges are measured...

Page 37: ...ed at this time will be combined together to produce a single average profile The discharge calculation at the edge is based on the selection of a constant sloped bank or vertical wall and uses a comb...

Page 38: ...yor Live for PC requires the following specifications for the PC Windows Vista or Windows XP 1 6 GHz processor 1 GB memory 1 GB disk space 1024 x 768 Screen Resolution 6 3 Installation To install the...

Page 39: ...n Follow the on screen instructions to complete installation of the software You are now ready to use RiverSurveyor Live for PC to make a measurement 6 4 Starting the Software Upon starting the softwa...

Page 40: ...ead Spectrum Radio or integrated Bluetooth select the appropriate Com Port and click Connect Check the Parani Bluetooth connection box highlighted in Figure 26 only when using the Parani Bluetooth don...

Page 41: ...re shown at the top Figure 28 System Tab Following Connection 6 6 Site Information Site information can be entered by clicking Change Site Information This opens a popup win dow that allows you to ent...

Page 42: ...tings menu Figure 30 System Settings menu Transducer Depth This is the distance m that the vertical beam transducer is submerged below the water surface Figure 31 shows a basic diagram that depicts an...

Page 43: ...ence The ADP measures a water velocity using the Doppler shift principle using multiple acoustic pulses transmitted and received throughout the water column When the ADP is in motion the water velocit...

Page 44: ...It is recommended that GGA data use a sub meter differential or RTK cor rection for discharge calculations The highest quality and most accurate method ap plies RTK corrected data GPVTG The ADP uses t...

Page 45: ...alibration A compass calibration is necessary prior to each discharge measurement to compensate for magnetic fields specific to the site To perform a compass calibration click the Compass Cali bration...

Page 46: ...rSurveyor S5 M9 System Manual February 2013 During a measurement avoid any changes to the instrument setup or its orientation to the magnetic influences detected during the compass calibration Figure...

Page 47: ...o the magnetic influences detected during the compass calibration Measurements should be made in locations with similar magnetic influences as the location of the compass calibration 2 Clean Cal with...

Page 48: ...rease the distance between the small ferrous objects and instrument 4 Magnetic influence with low pitch roll Q4 H9 V2 M157 Failed Calibration Please Repeat Calibration Calibration duration 110 seconds...

Page 49: ...roll Recommendation s Repeat calibration with two complete horizontal rotations The required duration of the compass calibration is between 1 and 2 minutes 7 On the bridge with no pitch roll Q8 H9 V3...

Page 50: ...st typically takes 60 seconds and will present a dialog window indicating a system test Pass or Fail A failure would indicate that user action is required to ensure proper functionality of the system...

Page 51: ...rsus range Click the BeamCheck link to start the utility A popup window Figure 38 will appear displaying the serial number of the system and the selected beam frequency Figure 38 BeamCheck Menu Beam c...

Page 52: ...S Option provides information about SonTek GPS options available Clicking this option in the Utilities menu provides a way of verifying the GPS options available If the GPS option is not available thi...

Page 53: ...ere is adequate memory available on the recorder prior to making a discharge measurement It is suggested to download files and format the recorder between measurement sites At the very least all files...

Page 54: ...wed to make sure the system is operating correctly Make sure that all indicators shown in the top left are all valid not red Position the vessel at the start edge of the transect Figure 42 Data Collec...

Page 55: ...SonTek a Xylem brand RiverSurveyor S5 M9 System Manual February 2013 45 Figure 43 Data Collection Start Edge F5 Figure 44 Data Collection Edge Information...

Page 56: ...r to the end edge Figure 45 Data Collection Start Moving 6 11 4 End Edge Click the End Edge button or F5 when the vessel reaches the edge of the opposite bank Figure 46 A dialog box will prompt you to...

Page 57: ...ct Click the End Transect Figure 48 button upon completion of the end edge This automatically opens a new data collection window so you can start a new measurement The system is still running so if yo...

Page 58: ...resents the collected data in tabular format and includes the status icons to evaluate the measurement Figure 49 If desired resize the window by using the slider arrow when the mouse pointer is positi...

Page 59: ...file txt Delete selected discharge record s Deletes the selected records the ones with the red check These records will not be used for the discharge calculation Delete all discharge records Deletes a...

Page 60: ...e Requirements RiverSurveyor Live for Mobile requires the following Operating System Windows Mobile Smartphone v6 0 or higher Bluetooth Technology BroadCom stack and Bluetooth v2 0 with A2DP Note The...

Page 61: ...ments 7 Click the RiverSurveyor Live CAB file 8 The RiverSurveyor Live application will automatically install on the Mobile device and au tomatically confirm the installation of the application Figure...

Page 62: ...keys at the top center of the phone Soft keys can select options change between screens and even start and stop data collection Figure 55 shows an example of the Mobile device with indicators of vari...

Page 63: ...e device screen 2 Use the arrow keys to navigate to the RiverSurveyor Live for Mobile applica tion icon and select it Or select the icon from the short cut key A Search screen appears Figure 56 when y...

Page 64: ...my plug is installed all system LEDs on the PCM are correct and the battery is charged and installed correctly Then click Search Again Figure 57 Connection to ADP with Serial Number ADP S5 5 7 6 Prepa...

Page 65: ...in parentheses following each field in Figure 59 indicates the number of characters allowed in the field If this value is exceeded an error message is displayed The information entered in this menu is...

Page 66: ...n the earth s surface a calibrated compass indicates magnetic North rather than geographic North The angular difference between these two directions is called magnetic declination also known as variat...

Page 67: ...known and then subtracted from the actual water velocity measurement The RiverSurveyor moving boat discharge application uses three methods references to determine boat velocity 1 Bottom Track refere...

Page 68: ...locity data This method requires additional review of data qual ity parameters to verity data quality System The ADP references all velocities only to itself This should only be used in specialized ap...

Page 69: ...not be saved 7 6 5 Download Recorder 5 This menu displays the status of the recorder or memory of the ADP The Download Recorder menu Figure 66 shows the recorder s Total Space Free Space remaining ca...

Page 70: ...e very least all files should be downloaded and the recorder formatted at the end of the day Important To complete any post processing on the recorded data the file s must be down loaded from the ADP...

Page 71: ...lear all records from the Measurement Summary on the Mobile device The full Discharge Measurement Summary is still stored on the ADP system s internal recorder however and can be viewed when the data...

Page 72: ...formation that is applied to the discharge measurement Start Edge Sets the default starting edge for discharge measurements right or left bank Rated Discharge Enter a rated discharge pre or post measu...

Page 73: ...our possible System Test failure messages provided below all of which require us er action prior to making valid discharge measurements System battery voltage 12 volts System compass is not working Sy...

Page 74: ...a However systems with only Differ ential quality GPS cannot change to RTK quality GPS based on hardware constraints There is no capability of integrating a shore station differential GPS correction F...

Page 75: ...ct Open to upload the firmware file Figure 76 Utilities Firmware Upgrade Find File Screen Application Settings Figure 77 Activating the check box for Bluetooth Connect Automatical ly enables the softw...

Page 76: ...e system starts pinging and collecting data profiles Figure 78 Main Menu Start Data Collection Appendix A provides a description and list of icons used on the software s status bar Note that icons are...

Page 77: ...shows the RiverSurveyor collecting data after entering START EDGE inputs Collect at least 10 profiles samples edge and select START MOVING to go to the next step At this point it is important to make...

Page 78: ...data display to view The number keys 1 2 3 or 4 can also be used to change the views as shown in Figure 83 Figure 83 Data Collection Start Moving Data View 7 7 4 End Edge After arriving at the opposi...

Page 79: ...nual February 2013 69 Figure 84 Data collection End Edge Figure 85 Data collection End Edge information 7 7 5 End Transect Figure 86 shows the End Transect screen Press the End Transect button to comp...

Page 80: ...ement and go back to main menu Also at any step you can select MENU and then DIS CONNECT to disconnect the Mobile device from the system but leave the system still running You can reconnect to the ADP...

Page 81: ...nd PC can communicate After the Mobile device is powered on and connected to the PC ActiveSync will recognize the Mobile device and display it as a Mobile device on the PC in Windows Explorer You can...

Page 82: ...e data and the various tabular views A detailed description of the post processing options will follow 8 2 Opening Data Files To open and process data in RiverSurveyor Live for PC all data files must...

Page 83: ...r a direct connect option or a SS radio connection select a Com Port while Bluetooth users should click on the tick box at the bottom of the window Show Hide Processing Toolbox Ctrl T Toggle button sh...

Page 84: ...s are explained in Appendix A Right click on the tabular data to select the display options shown in Figure 92 In addition to the various data display options there is an Add all option to include all...

Page 85: ...or the sample profile 8 3 4 Tab Windows Selection There are five views or data tabs in the software Each tab presents a specific view of the data explained below 8 3 5 Tab Window Display The Tab Windo...

Page 86: ...by clicking Change System Settings Discharge Measurement shows a summary of Measurement Settings This information can be modified for post processing by clicking on Change Measurement Settings Edge Es...

Page 87: ...respectively Figure 96 Samples Tab Navigation Tab The Navigation tab Figure 97 has three sections incremental profile data left navigational graphics main area and transect view bottom The navigation...

Page 88: ...n allows evaluation of the data from each sample Status icons help to determine system performance Navigation Graphics Present a view of the trajectory of the system during a meas urement The left arr...

Page 89: ...g allows various plotting options while left clicking provides scaling options In this win dow using the up down keys allows you to cycle through the data profile by profile changing all the graphs si...

Page 90: ...s follows An open file will update its corresponding discharge record with changes to settings or as sample number changes Closing a file leaves the record displayed in the discharge measurement summa...

Page 91: ...the field Figure 102 displays the options available Transducer depth Screening Distance Salinity and Magnetic Declination require a manual entry The Track Velocity Reference Depth Reference and Coor d...

Page 92: ...cation of Left Right Bank settings in order to better define the characteristics regarding channel width and the slope of the edges These set tings have an important impact on the discharge calculatio...

Page 93: ...oolbox Thresholds Figure 105 Shows an option to set the minimum beam SNR threshold used for water velocity calculations default 1 0 dB This value corresponds to the minimum SNR val ue needed to make a...

Page 94: ...om of screen Data Processing Ctrl F4 Close Current Tab Data Processing Ctrl Increase Vector Length Track Window Ctrl Decrease Vector Length Track Window Z Zoom in Track Window Shift Z Zoom out Track W...

Page 95: ...e VB and BT depth scales are the same Check for any major dis crepancies o Evaluate Boat Speed and Water speed plotted on the same graph Ideally the Boat speed should not exceed the water speed where...

Page 96: ...SonTek a Xylem brand 86 RiverSurveyor S5 M9 System Manual February 2013 o Channel width and discharge areas should be similar o Uncheck or delete problematic records...

Page 97: ...ne the true water velocity track distance and depth That is when you mount the ADP to a vessel bottom track measures the velocity and direction of the ADP vessel movement over ground There are four ic...

Page 98: ...s to the method used to measure depth The RiverSurveyor presents two options for Depth Reference Vertical Beam using the echo sounder and Bottom Track using the velocity transducers The indicator for...

Page 99: ...ption is included below Open File Ctrl O Opens a window that allows users to select files to open and evaluate using post processing tools Connect Ctrl N Allows the selection of communications types w...

Page 100: ...t to the record Delete All Discharge Records Using the Delete All Records button deletes all loaded records from the Discharge Summary Processing Toolbox Icons Desktop version Reset to Field Settings...

Page 101: ...M9 System Manual February 2013 91 Bottom Track Applies data from the velocity transducers from the S5 four 3 MHz transducers and M9 four 3 MHz transducers and four 1 MHz transducers to determine wate...

Page 102: ...Distance made good is the distance from your last position to your present position 2 Temperature Temperature in C or F system settings Metric or English for the last profile processed 2 Heading Show...

Page 103: ...based on the salinity in parts per thousand ppt 4 Magnetic Dec lination User defined value for difference in magnetic North and true North 4 Track Refer ence User defined criteria used in determining...

Page 104: ...coordinates will be 1 X Velocity 2 Y Velocity 3 Up Velocity 4 Difference Velocity o BT_Vel when exported in Beam coordinates will be 1 Beam 1 2 Beam 2 3 Beam 3 4 Beam 4 GPS Altitude from the GGA stri...

Page 105: ...ata for each sample correlate with Frequency parameter from Transformation_Matrices struc ture NS x 1 Units Units for above parameters BT_Frequency is kHz NA GPS structure Parameter Name Description S...

Page 106: ...PGGA UTC for each high frequency GPS sample HHMMSS S NS x 50 Setup structure Parameter Name Description Size startEdge Start edge 0 Left bank 1 Right bank NA magneticDeclination Magnetic Declination d...

Page 107: ...se Calculated Sound Speed 1 Use User Input Sound Speed NA Units Units for above parameters NA Stationary Structure Parameter Name Description Size user_Input_Water_Depth Water depth at station input b...

Page 108: ...sample NS x 1 Total_Q Total discharge for each sample NS x 1 Depth Depth used for discharge calculation for each sample NS x 1 Cells Number of cells used for discharge calculation for each sample NS x...

Page 109: ...y Water Velocity for each cell for each beam for each sample NC x 4 x NS Vel_StdDev Standard deviation of water velocity for each cell for each beam for each sample NC x 4 x NS Correlation Correlation...

Page 110: ...y instructions to interconnect correctly to maintain se cure connections b Make sure that all cables are properly connected The connections between the trans ducer S5 or M9 and PCM should be firm Make...

Page 111: ...is sufficiently charged The GGA and VTG icons will also display red if you run RSLv 3 60 with g and or GPS not available or not installed If you are using an exter nal serially connected GPS make sure...

Page 112: ...have been maintained b Be sure to keep a written record of water level at the site during the discharge meas urement The water level can be referenced to a stream gauge that is permanently in stalled...

Page 113: ...and buildings nearby can obstruct the satellite signals Move away from any over head obstructions to avoid multi path errors or GPS dropouts b The GPS antenna on the ADP should be connected to the PC...

Page 114: ...of the sky is recommended 9 20 Fair Represents a low confidence level Positional measurements should be dis carded or used only to indicate a very rough estimate of the current location 21 50 Poor At...

Page 115: ...S in PCM 0 No power to GPS board in Base Station Send back RTK Base Station to the factory No Base Sta tion lock and hardware failure in PCM 0 No power to GPS board in PCM Send back PCM to the factory...

Page 116: ...ull view of all the available satel lites to get differential lock GPS lock in PCM and no radio link be tween Base Station and PCM 1 Spread Spectrum radios in PCM and RTK Base Station are not working...

Page 117: ...SonTek a Xylem brand RiverSurveyor S5 M9 System Manual February 2013 107 GPS lock in PCM with RTK lock 4 RTK fixed integer best option...

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Page 119: ...erical input must correspond with the language For example The number 1 000 1 when English is selected must be input as 1 000 1 when German is select ed The Summary Report and ASCII export have Multi...

Page 120: ...he clipboard by right clicking on the table and selecting Save to Clipboard from the popup menu This data can then be pasted into Excel or a text editor for ASCII export The order of the columns can b...

Page 121: ...should be used for correc tions to the Heading for individual transects The Magnetic Declination should be constant for all transects at a site and the Apply to All button can be used for all transect...

Page 122: ...o select a language 1 When you run this version of the software for the very first time the following lan guage selection dialog will open before searching for any RiverSurveyor systems 2 Select a lan...

Page 123: ...lable online to display Chinese Japanese and Korean characters All log files Compass Calibration System Test are recorded in English 2 Mobile Graphics One main addition in this version is mobile graph...

Page 124: ...edded in the compass calibration and system test file 2 Temperature and Speed of Sound Correction Water temperature and speed of sound can be manually input prior to a measurement and in post processi...

Page 125: ...e saved to the mobile device as long as a memory card is installed This eliminates the need to download files to process them if communications are not lost during a measurement Files saved on the com...

Page 126: ...ance between the GPS antenna and the M9 S5 This allows the GPS compass antenna to be mounted virtually anywhere on the boat The system requirements for using GPS compass sensor a Data output rate at 1...

Page 127: ...and snr These files contain cell velocity data cell SNR data and summary of various parameters The files are exported to the same directory as the recorded measure ment file The column headers and un...

Page 128: ...sages and warnings are imple mented to collect and analyze loop method data correctly See Appendix H for details about the Loop Method RiverSurveyor Stationary Live v2 50 1 Under Ice Measurement Featu...

Page 129: ...ransect tab with as text 7 Added water temperature Independent to the quality settings dialog 8 Added instrument alignment parameter to help the user to align the M9 S5 properly un der ice 9 Added fun...

Page 130: ...the water is sufficiently shallow and slow the system reports data from 3 MHz pulse coherent pings using a 2 cm cell size o Maximum operating depth is about 1 5 m o At a depth of 1 5 m the maximum vel...

Page 131: ...for velocity profiling It combines different frequencies and different Doppler processing techniques to optimize performance for the current operating condi tions The added power and flexibility provi...

Page 132: ...can be used in a wide range of applications such as Discharge Measurements Current Profiling across transects Under Ice Measurements available in future release G 2 System Requirements RiverSurveyor...

Page 133: ...in conditions where there are significant temporal changes in flow conditions e g pulsing rivers moving beds and channels with conditions of variable moving beds This also includes areas of significa...

Page 134: ...p the Location A measurement section is selected based on the criteria outlined in Section G 5 below A graduated tag line is strung across the river In an ideal measurement site the flow should be per...

Page 135: ...he system as vertical as possible Ideally the system will be mounted to a platform vessel or mounting structure Data collection begins and the M9 S5 measures the 3D current velocities and bottom depth...

Page 136: ...tructed of non ferrous material ideally aluminum Make sure the M9 S5 is at least a few meters away from the engine or any other ferro magnetic objects mounted to the boat to ensure proper operation of...

Page 137: ...he inter nal compass it will accurately compute the true velocity and normal velocity The same system orientation shown in the figure above must be used when measuring the tagline azimuth using the in...

Page 138: ...ing the Connect to RiverSurveyor System Ctrl N This will display the Select Port dialog Select the serial port that your system is connected to and click the Connect button or press the Enter key Note...

Page 139: ...pe M9 or S5 the system serial number and the firmware version for reference purposes No inputs are required in this section G 7 3 Step 1 Site Information The Site Information dialog covers information...

Page 140: ...he displayed parameters Figure 114 System Settings Tagline Azimuth It is important to set the tagline azimuth if you are using the ENU orientation The tagline azimuth Figure 115 is the heading directi...

Page 141: ...tagline azimuth for this site then simply input that value and proceed to the next tab If you do not know the azimuth you can use the system s internal compass to determine the tagline azimuth by pres...

Page 142: ...cation near the center of the river in a section of flow that flowing directly downstream 2 Once the M9 S5 has been correctly aligned with the river and is relatively steady press Start to collect dat...

Page 143: ...ence Figure 119 Track Reference In most cases because the M9 S5 is stationary during a measurement the System track refer ence will be preferred Selecting Bottom track as a track reference is also acc...

Page 144: ...n set press OK to continue G 7 5 Step 3 Rated Discharge The rated discharge used to calculate the percent discharge measured for each station To in put the rated discharge click the update button and...

Page 145: ...ost start and end locations gauge height and auxiliary gauge height i e water level if known and the observation time of the gauge height reading Once the fields are updated press the OK Enter button...

Page 146: ...ge boat hull Coordinate System ENU or XYZ ENU enables compass and references measurements from magnetic north XYZ disables compass and references measurements from the internal system axis Coordinate...

Page 147: ...rmation or End Edge to input the end edge location information If you press Cancel to go back you must press Next Station F5 in the upper left hand corner of the window to pro ceed with the measuremen...

Page 148: ...d begin profiling The station data will be displayed at 1 second intervals and displayed similar to the screen below The screen layout is similar to the moving boat software Icons in the upper left of...

Page 149: ...data file stored on the computer can be reopened to complete the meas urement Island Edges If a river is split into multiple channels any internal island s must be accounted for in the discharge calc...

Page 150: ...SonTek a Xylem brand 140 RiverSurveyor S5 M9 System Manual February 2013 Figure 126 Island Edge...

Page 151: ...e current meas urement Click the Report button in the toolbar to display the Report The Summary is designed to be informative easy to use and output the data in exactly the same format as it is entere...

Page 152: ...SO method is based on the international standard and provides the results of a pub lished standard technique In some cases it may not provide as reliable an indicator of data quality as it makes limit...

Page 153: ...dth estimated uncertainty in width measurements Method estimated uncertainty from not measuring velocity throughout the entire water col umn velocity near the surface and bottom must be estimated o Us...

Page 154: ...or Live software The actual moving bed velocity calculation is based on the dis tributed correction method which is described in detail in the report mentioned above Background For moving boat dischar...

Page 155: ...n accordance to USGS pro cedures Step by step procedure 1 Start the RiverSurveyor Live PC or mobile software and connect to the M9 S5 2 In the start menu input all necessary parameters as usual to mea...

Page 156: ...k and forth across the stream The ship track and contour plot are displayed It is essential to a quality measurement to maintain a uniform and steady boat speed during the entire measurement As you ap...

Page 157: ...SonTek a Xylem brand RiverSurveyor S5 M9 System Manual February 2013 147 Figure 129 Start Loop Method Figure 130 Stop Loop Method...

Page 158: ...thod measurement in addition to the moving bed results The file name will start with Loop_ to identify it from a regular discharge measurement Post Processing Loop Method Measurements 1 Start the Rive...

Page 159: ...results are reviewed Figure 133 Loop Method Results 5 The moving bed speed is now calculated Prior to applying the correction you must first open the Processing Toolbox by clicking the Tools icon Ctrl...

Page 160: ...Reference options in the Processing Toolbox on the right side of the screen Click Apply to all to apply the loop correction to the open measurements As soon as the correction if valid is applied the...

Page 161: ...scharge Summary Report icon under the Discharge Summary table to gener ate the final discharge summary report The final report will display the entire Loop Method analysis along with measured and loop...

Page 162: ...erature and salinity af fect depth calculations refer to SonTek Technical Note Range Velocity Sound Speed and Snell s Law Similar to acoustic current measurement systems hydrographic surveying instrum...

Page 163: ...sly with RiverSurvey or Live 3 0 and RiverSurveyor Stationary Live 2 0 Collecting sound speed profiles is simple with the CastAway it can be lowered by hand requires no preprogramming and after a cast...

Page 164: ...of the CastAway also ensures accurate temperature data required for all velocity measurements The CastAway CTD and RiverSur veyor integration is a user friendly way to apply sound speed corrections t...