In September, 2011, the CANON initiative undertook a three week experiment
with two goals in mind:
to find and track any strong upwelling front which might
present itself
to automatically track a moving patch of water and, with
the aid of an SIO drifting profiler (aka 'wire walker'),
reconstruct water conditions with respect to a moving frame of
reference
During the first week of the experiment, broad surveys showed an
upwelling front of moderate strength. However conditions for the
rest of the experiment were less upwelling-favorable, so efforts
were focused on patch tracking. For the patch tracking exercises,
the wire walker was deployed in a region of interest and allowed
to follow the surface current. The Dorado was then deployed with
T-REX instructed to trace consecutive one kilometer boxes around
the wire walker position. That position was updated at the
beginning of each box via satellite communication with ODSS.
The following table contains three dimensional curtain plot
images of the various data products obtained over the course
of this experiment. Also provided are animated versions.
