RV Investigator Voyage IN2019_V03 EK60 Echosounder

Created 12/10/2024

Updated 12/10/2024

This record describes scientific split-beam echosounder data collected on the RV Investigator voyage IN2019_V03, 2nd Indian Ocean Expedition Line which departed Fremantle on the 14/05/2019 and returned to Fremantle on the 14/06/2019.

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 1500 m in the area of the Indian Ocean, 110° E. All frequencies were logged continuously for the extent of the voyage. The frequencies were set to passive for the whole of the voyage. Data are stored in .raw, .bot and *.idx format at CSIRO. There are 2626 files totalling 73.4 GB of raw data in this dataset.

No processing has been conducted on this data.

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Title RV Investigator Voyage IN2019_V03 EK60 Echosounder
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/0c7ebe66-8374-46ef-bdb2-b736ddba9116
Contact Point
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 27/06/2019
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