RV Investigator Voyage IN2023_V07 EK60/EK80 Echosounder

This record describes scientific split-beam echosounder data collected on the RV Investigator voyage IN2023_V07, [FOCUS] which departed Hobart on the 15/11/23 and returned to Hobart on the 20/12/23.The Simrad EK60 split beam echosounders for18kHz and Simrad EK80 split beam echosounders for 38, 70 120, 200 and 333 kHz were used to acquire acoustic backscatter data to a range of 1500 m, around the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the Southern Ocean, South of Hobart. All frequencies were logged continuously for the extent of the voyage. The 33 KHz and 70 KHz frequencies were set to passive for periods of the voyage.Data are stored in *.raw, *.bot and *.idx format at CSIRO. There are 1806 files totalling 176 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.