RAFOS Float Processing at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Abstract

This report and its accompanying web page (http://www.whoi.edu/science/PO/rafos/) describe the processing steps for RAFOS floats, from subscribing to Service Argos to plotting the final data for a data report. The MATLAB-based tracking software ARTOA-II is described in detail. ARTOA-II allows the user to convert raw hexidecimal data to decimal format, calculate float clock drifts, edit raw data, and use the time-of-arrival data to calculate float trajectories. The intention is that this report will provide a handy reference and it will be kept from becoming out-of-date by updates to the relevant web pages.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA432771

Entities

People

  • Christine M. Wooding
  • Heather H. Furey
  • Marguerite A. Pachece

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Clocks
  • Computer Programming
  • Data Acquisition
  • Directories
  • Doppler Effect
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Grids
  • Latitude
  • Oceanography
  • Plotting
  • Repetition Rate
  • Surface Navigation
  • Trajectories
  • United States

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Oceanography.