Modification to Sea Data Wave Gages for Coastal Use

Abstract

The Sea Data wave gage is used extensively by the Corps of Engineers to obtain wave measurements. It measures water pressure with a transducer and records the time series of pressure fluctuations on an internal cassette tape. When deploying internal recording gages, failure of the gage for any reason cannot be detected until after recovery. If failure occurs the costs of deploying and recovering the instrument may be wasted. Failure to obtain the required data may in turn have other adverse consequences.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA580035

Entities

Organizations

  • Coastal Engineering Research Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aquatic Organisms
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Cassettes
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Firmware
  • Heat Transfer
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • O Rings
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Recovery
  • Sediments
  • Static Pressure
  • Suspended Sediments
  • Transducers

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Educational Psychology