bluerobotics / ping-viewer

Ping Viewer is an open-source application to view and record data from the Blue Robotics Ping Echosounder and Ping360 Scanning Sonar.
https://docs.bluerobotics.com/ping-viewer/
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docs: device-settings: speed of sound (fresh water) #1004

Closed ES-Alexander closed 3 years ago

ES-Alexander commented 3 years ago

Our docs for Ping1D speed of sound recommend using 1435m/s for fresh water, the Ping360 ones recommend 1450m/s for fresh water (correct at ~11C), and an online search yields 1480m/s (which is for 20C).

We should definitely at least have consistency across device types, but could avoid stating a particular number by instead linking to a speed of sound calculator, or integrating one into Ping Viewer (see #1003). We may also wish to implement a simpler calculator on the BR website to link to, instead of the NPL one.