oce (version 0.8-9)

beamName: Name an acoustic-doppler beam.

Description

Name a beam for an acoustic-doppler device, adjusting for beam number and for coordinate system.

Usage

beamName(x, which)

Arguments

x

an acoustic-doppler object, inheriting from class "adp" or "adv".

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 is determined by x@metadata$oce.coordinate.

See Also

This is used by read.oce.