SonTek/YSI Argonaut-XR Technical Manual - HydroScientific West

SonTek/YSI
File names must be given without extension. GARGSAMP generates an ASCII output file with the
extension .DAT. The program assumes that the Argonaut data file has the extension .ARG. If no
is specified, the program uses the same name as the binary data file. First sample
and last sample let you extract a subset of the data. If they are not specified, the program extracts
all samples in the file.
The ASCII tabular output file has one line per sample. There are no headers so commercial programs
(Lotus, MatLab, etc.) can easily access the data. The tabular output file has several
columns of data as shown in the following table with their unit of measurement.
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GARGSAMP / EARGSAMP Tabular Output Data Format
Col Contents Metric English
1 Sample time (start of averaging interval) – Year
2 Sample time (start of averaging interval) – Month
3 Sample time (start of averaging interval) – Day
4 Sample time (start of averaging interval) – Hour
5 Sample time (start of averaging interval) – Minute
6 Sample time (start of averaging interval) – Second
7 Velocity component 1 (Beam 1 / X / East) cm/s ft/s
8 Velocity component 2 (Beam 2 / Y / North) cm/s ft/s
9 Velocity component 3 (Beam 3 / Z / Up) cm/s ft/s
10 Standard deviation component 1 (Beam 1 / X / East) cm/s ft/s
11 Standard deviation component 2 (Beam 2 / Y / North) cm/s cm/s
12 Standard deviation component 3 (Beam 3 / Z / Up) – OR –
cm/s cm/s
Water level (SL systems with vertical beam; see Operation Manual) cm ft
13 Signal strength (Beam 1) count count
14 Signal strength (Beam 2) count count
15 Signal strength (Beam 3) count count
16 Percent good pings % %
17 Heading ° °
18 Pitch (rotation about the Y-axis) ° °
19 Roll (rotation about the X-axis) ° °
20 Standard deviation of heading ° °
21 Standard deviation of the pitch (rotation about the Y-axis) ° °
22 Standard deviation of the roll (rotation about the X-axis) ° °
23 Mean temperature °C °F
24 Mean pressure dbar PSI
25 Standard deviation of pressure dbar PSI
26 Input power level V V
27 Starting location of sampling volume (cell begin) m ft
28 Ending location of sampling volume (cell end) m ft
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Wave amplitude for 10 period bands (if present) cm ft
39 Significant wave height (if present) cm ft
40 Wave peak period (if present) s s
Argonaut Software Manual (March 1, 2001)