RV Investigator Voyage IN2015_E01 EK60 Echosounder Data

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This record describes echosounder data collected on RV Investigator voyage IN2015_E01, which departed Hobart on the 29 Jan 2015 and returning to Hobart on the 19 Feb 2015, after successfully testing equipment at 65° south. The Simrad EK60 split beam echosounders 38, 70, 120, 200 and 333 KHz were used to acquire water column and bathymetry data between Hobart and Antarctica. Data are stored in .raw .bot and *.idx format at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere. There are 906 files totalling 43.1 GB of raw data in this dataset. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report.

Files and APIs

Additional Info

Field Value
Title RV Investigator Voyage IN2015_E01 EK60 Echosounder Data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/badcb07e-4207-49bb-a37a-d151cb5b762e
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/02/2015 - 16/02/2015
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        143.9,
        -65.1
      ],
      [
        147.3,
        -65.1
      ],
      [
        147.3,
        -42.8
      ],
      [
        143.9,
        -42.8
      ],
      [
        143.9,
        -65.1
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "RV Investigator Voyage IN2015_E01 EK60 Echosounder Data". 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_e01-ek60-echosounder-data