RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_V05 EK60 Echosounder

Created 12/10/2024

Updated 12/10/2024

This record describes scientific split-beam echosounder data collected on the RV Investigator voyage IN2017_V05, Long-term recovery of trawled marine communities 25 years after the world’s largest adaptive management experiment, which departed Broome on the 11 October 2017 and returned to Henderson on the 10 November 2017.

The Simrad EK60 split beam echosounders, 18, 38, 70 120, 200 and 333 kHz were used to acquire acoustic backscatter data to a range of 100 m, around the Northwest Shelf. All frequencies were logged continuously for the extent of the voyage. Data are stored in .raw, .bot and .idx format at CSIRO. There are 1041 .raw files totalling 55.6 GB of raw data in this dataset.

No processing has been conducted on this data.

Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report. Additional data products may be available on request.

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Title RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_V05 EK60 Echosounder
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/bda30064-9dc4-4cb0-9231-9dc381fdb1b6
Contact Point
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 18/06/2018
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