RV Investigator Voyage IN2016_V02 EK60 Echosounder

This record describes scientific split-beam echosounder data collected on the RV Investigator voyage IN2016_V02, which departed Hobart on the 14th-March-2016 and returned to Hobart on the 16th-April-2016.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. All frequencies were logged continuously for the extent of the voyage. The frequencies were] set to passive for the periods of the voyage.Data are stored in *.raw, *.bot and *.idx format at CSIRO. There are 780 files totaling 70.6 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.