SCAMP Software

SCAMP is supplied with MS Windows software that enables control of the SCAMP and analysis of SCAMP's measurement. This software runs on a P.C. platform under Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

The control software allows access to many items related to SCAMP's internal state such as mission parameters, calibration coefficients, measurements of internal battery voltages, various tests of analog and digital hardware. This software is a Windows dialog and communicates with SCAMP via USB.



The analysis software consists of Matlab scripts and MEX files that run under a customer-supplied version of Matlab. The scripts implement the data processing flow and are documented in a way that enables customers to easily modify them to provide alternate processing. The MEX files contain numerical routines such as FFT and are the tools that the scripts use to implement analysis.


Matlab Software Features

Determine SCAMP velocity
Apply numerical filters for frequency compensation and filtering to all C&T sensors
Allows the customer to save the measurements on disk for later viewing or analysis.
Ability to manually set acquisition start/stop parameters such as depth, time or number samples
Graphical displays are available within a very short time after uploading the SCAMP measured data, in almost real-time.


Matlab Can Compute

Density for fresh and sea water
Sorted Density
Gravity anomaly
Salinity for sea water
Thorpe scales
Centered length scales
Buoyancy frequency
Power spectrum of Gradient Fast T0 channel
Estimation of best fit Batchelor spectrum to Gradient Fast T0 channel using kB and X as free parameters
Estimated dissipation of turbulent energy over 1E-10 to 1E-5 (M^2/S^3) range from Batchelor spectral fitting
Locate statistically stationary segments in the data for further analysis.
Segmented turbulent energy dissipation, e, segmented buoyancy frequency, N, and segmented turbulence length scale, Lc
Segmented Kolmogorov length scales, Lk, and segmented Ozmidov length scales, Lo,
Segmented turbulent Froude and turbulent Reynolds numbers
Segmented flux Richardson numbers and segmented buoyancy fluxes

 

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