RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_V01 EK60 Echosounder

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

This record describes scientific split-beam echosounder data collected on the RV Investigator voyage IN2017_V01, 'Interactions of the Totten Glacier with the Southern Ocean through multiple cycles. ‘Sabrina Seafloor Survey' which departed Hobart on the 14th January 2017 and returned to Hobart on the 5th March 2017. 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 Totten Glacier. All frequencies were logged continuously for the extent of the voyage. Data are stored in .raw, .bot and *.idx format at CSIRO. There are 1120 files totalling 31.5 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.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title RV Investigator Voyage IN2017_V01 EK60 Echosounder
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/c891866f-5952-4762-9285-85ddbf6ec99a
Contact Point
CSIRO Marlin Data Catalogue
data-requests-hf@csiro.au
Reference Period 15/07/2019
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 IN2017_V01 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-in2017_v01-ek60-echosounder