Patent · US Expired

Broadband acoustic doppler current profiler

US5208785A · kind A · utility

46Cited by
13References
36Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateMar 13, 1992
Grant dateMay 4, 1993
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 13, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S15/582
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A system and method for measuring current velocities using coded-pulse broadband acoustic signals. Autocorrelation of two phase coded pulses which are in the water during a single transmission cycle is used to calculate a Doppler frequency. The effective result is current profilers having improved profiling range and spatio-temporal resolution.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.