RV Investigator Voyage IN2015_V01 EK60 Echosounder Data

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This record describes echosounder data collected on the Marine National Facility RV Investigator voyage IN2015_V01. This is the first research voyage for the RV Investigator departing Hobart on the 21 March and returning to Hobart on the 30 March, 2015. The Simrad EK60 split beam echosounders, 38, 70, 120, 200 and 333 KHz were used to acquire water column and bathymetry data. Data are stored in .raw .bot and *.idx format at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere. There are 747 files totalling 15.9 GB of raw data in this dataset. Additional information regarding this dataset is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title RV Investigator Voyage IN2015_V01 EK60 Echosounder Data
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f44e2a21-96dc-4cb2-9b54-319851372169
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 21/03/2015 - 29/03/2015
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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    [
      [
        141.0,
        -47.0
      ],
      [
        147.3,
        -47.0
      ],
      [
        147.3,
        -42.8
      ],
      [
        141.0,
        -42.8
      ],
      [
        141.0,
        -47.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal CSIRO Marlin

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on CSIRO Marlin "RV Investigator Voyage IN2015_V01 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_v01-ek60-echosounder-data