RV Investigator Voyage IN2015_E05 EK60 Echosounder

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This record describes scientific split-beam echosounder data collected on the RV Investigator voyage, IN2015_E05, which departed Hobart 2015-05-01 and returned on 2015-05-05. The Simrad EK60 split beam echosounders, 18, 38, 70 120, 200 and 333 kHz were used to acquire data. All frequencies were logged for the extent of the voyage. KSync settings were tested for interference with all the ship board acoustic instruments. Data are stored in .raw, .bot and *.idx format at CSIRO. There are 66 files totalling 785 MB 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.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title RV Investigator Voyage IN2015_E05 EK60 Echosounder
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/1e66147d-dc79-4f2e-8137-9fbe6d656d1f
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 24/02/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "RV Investigator Voyage IN2015_E05 EK60 Echosounder". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/rv-investigator-voyage-in2015_e05-ek60-echosounder