RV Investigator Voyage IN2019_T01 EK60 Echosounder

This record describes scientific split-beam echosounder data collected on the RV Investigator voyage IN2019_T01, CAPSTAN which departed Hobart on the 2th April 2019 and returned to Fremantle on the 9th May 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, between Hobart and Fremantle. All frequencies were logged continuously for the extent of the voyage except for a survey of the shipping lane from Albany to just south of Fremantle.
Data are stored in *.raw, *.bot and *.idx format at CSIRO. There are 466 files totaling 41.1. 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.