beamName {oce}

Get Names of Acoustic-Doppler Beams

Description

Get Names of Acoustic-Doppler Beams

Usage

beamName(x, which)

Arguments

x

an adp object.

which

an integer indicating beam number.

Value

A character string containing a reasonable name for the beam, of the form "beam 1", etc., for beam coordinates, "east", etc. for enu coordinates, "u", etc. for "xyz", or "u'", etc., for "other" coordinates. The coordinate system is determined with x[["coordinate"]].

Author(s)

Dan Kelley

See Also

This is used by read.oce().

Other things related to adp data: [[,adp-method, [[<-,adp-method, ad2cpCodeToName(), ad2cpHeaderValue(), adp-class, adpAd2cpFileTrim(), adpConvertRawToNumeric(), adpEnsembleAverage(), adpFlagPastBoundary(), adpRdiFileTrim(), adp_rdi.000, adp, applyMagneticDeclination,adp-method, as.adp(), beamToXyzAdpAD2CP(), beamToXyzAdp(), beamToXyzAdv(), beamToXyz(), beamUnspreadAdp(), binmapAdp(), enuToOtherAdp(), enuToOther(), handleFlags,adp-method, is.ad2cp(), plot,adp-method, read.adp.ad2cp(), read.adp.nortek(), read.adp.rdi(), read.adp.sontek.serial(), read.adp.sontek(), read.adp(), read.aquadoppHR(), read.aquadoppProfiler(), read.aquadopp(), rotateAboutZ(), setFlags,adp-method, subset,adp-method, subtractBottomVelocity(), summary,adp-method, toEnuAdp(), toEnu(), velocityStatistics(), xyzToEnuAdpAD2CP(), xyzToEnuAdp(), xyzToEnu()

Other things related to adv data: [[,adv-method, [[<-,adv-method, adv-class, advSontekAdrFileTrim(), adv, applyMagneticDeclination,adv-method, beamToXyz(), enuToOtherAdv(), enuToOther(), plot,adv-method, read.adv.nortek(), read.adv.sontek.adr(), read.adv.sontek.serial(), read.adv.sontek.text(), read.adv(), rotateAboutZ(), subset,adv-method, summary,adv-method, toEnuAdv(), toEnu(), velocityStatistics(), xyzToEnuAdv(), xyzToEnu()