RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_V03 SBP120 Sub-bottom Profiler Data

This record describes sub bottom profiler data collected on RV Investigator voyage IN2017_V03, 'Sampling the abyss: latitudinal biodiversity patterns along the base of Australia’s eastern continental margin' which departed Bell Bay on the 15 May 2017 and returned to Brisbane on the 16 June 2017. The Kongsberg SBP120 (sub bottom profiler) was used to acquire data containing the specular reflections at different sediment interfaces below the seafloor. The SBP120 provides a 3° by 3° angular resolution.The echosounder's frequency sweep range is from 2.5 to 7 kHz. The SBP120 was logged mainly on transits as all ship's acoustics were turned off to listen for beacons on most operations.Data are stored in *.raw and *.seg formats at CSIRO (30 lines 7.0 GB)The segy format data had a real time processing stream applied, which applies gain, a gain correction, matched filter with replica shaping, an attribute calculation for instantaneous amplitude and time variable gain.Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report. Additional data products may be available on request