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Speed Rail Mount with adjustable Pitch Roll

Sontek M9 bridge deployment during flooding event

Planview photograph of the OceanScience Riverboat.

Photograph of custom boogie board for ADCP deploymet, view of bottom.

Photograph of the StreamPro being deployed in the included tethered boat on a temporary tagline.

OceanScience, Inc. designed alternative boat.

2" aluminum pipe, structural pipe fittings, and square tubing are utilized to create a dock servicable uplooking ADVM mount.

A 4" aluminum I-beam is used allow an ADVM to be raised and lowered on a stainless steel sled. 

Missouri boat and mount.

Speed Rail and Kee Lite are two common manufacturers of aluminum structural pipe fittings, a popular material in which to construct index-velocity meter mounts.

Sandhill Crane Pair in flight at Glacial Ridge National Wildlife Refuge

A frontal view of the USGS Water Science Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

In this photo, USGS scientists Megan Haserodt (Hydrologist) and Jenelle Wempner (Student Intern) install a double ring infiltrometer along a recreated floodplain of Underwood Creek, a tributary to the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

USGS employee John Fulton prepares an unmanned aerial vehicle for take off. This particular drone referred to as "Q-Cam" measures surface water stream velocity. Combined with a second drone, non-contact discharge measurements can be made.

USGS scientists Adam Baldwin and Chris Gazoorian (USGS New York Water Science Center) point out the newly installed fixed-mount thermal infrared camera installed on the USGS Platte Kill at Dunraven NY streamgage in t

Photo of a newly installed fixed-mount thermal infrared camera installed on the USGS Platte Kill at Dunraven NY streamgage in the Neversink River watershed.

Profilers measure velocities in uniformly-sized cells or bins along the acoustic beams (fig 1). By measuring velocities in a number of bins across a channel or vertically through the water column, these instruments produce horizontal or vertical water velocity profiles, hence the designation "profiler.

The AVM measures the average water velocity along the acoustic path (VP, figure 1); then computes the "line velocity," the velocity component parallel with the average downstream flow line.

Illustration of a typical remotely recoverable sub-surface deployment.

6" PVC pipe is weighted to allow an ADVM/ADCP to be deployed in a vertical or "uplooker" configuration.

Old custom made Kentucky-style mount on several different boats from Kentucky and Illinois deploying both Broadband (BB) and Rio Grande ADCPs. A pole can be fixed to the mount for deploying a GPS antenna located on top of the ADCP. The Kentucky-style mount constructed of Speed Rail is recommended for Rio Grande Workhorse, RiverPro, RioPro, and Sontek M9.