JANUARY 2010 - TD 220a DEPLOYMENT GUIDE, RDCP600
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INTRODUCTION
Purpose and scope
This operating manual describes the
Recording Doppler Current Profiler, RDCP
600, how it is used, maintained and serviced.
The RDCP 600 is an important member of
the family of Aanderaa Recording Current
Meters.
Together they cover the whole range of sea
current measurements from the surface
down
to
6,000
meters
depth.
Besides Doppler technology, the RDCP 600
retains several standard features of the
Aanderaa recording instruments, such as the
pressure case, compass, Windows CE
interface and the electronic board.
The RDCP 600 is one of the most advanced
product of Aanderaa Data Instruments AS to
date.
RDCP 600 has been designed for use in
bottom-mounted installations as well as in
ordinary string moorings where it may
replace multiple single-point current meter
installations.
The instrument consists of a triple processor
system capable of up to 650 MIPS,
advanced signal processing algorithms and an
embedded real-time, multithread, multi-pro-
cess operating system.
The combination of such resources produces
superior data quality as well as unsurpassed
flexibility and easy operation.
Although the RDCP 600 is primarily a self-
contained current profiling device which
stores data internally on the MMC or CF
card, it can also be used to supply data in
real-time to e.g. port offices or vessel traffic
centres.
The RDCP comes in three versions: the
300m standard POM version (Shallow
Water), the 2000m Titan version
(Intermediate Water), and the 4000m Titan
version (Deep Water) .
Document Overview
TD220a describes the deployment configuration of the instrument, maintenance and
installation/retrieval procedures. Please refer TD220b for RDCP Studio information and TD220c
for RDCP Primer.
