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This record describes ME 70 scientific multibeam fisheries echosounder data collected on RV Investigator voyage IN2017_E03, Equipment Commissioning Sea Trials, which departed Brisbane on the 20th August 2017 and returned to Brisbane on the 24th of August 2017.The Simrad ME70 scientific multibeam echosounder acquired acoustic backscatter data through the water column using a variety of configurations for testing purposes. The echosounder's frequency range is from 70 kHz to 120 kHz. The ME70 logged sporadically for the extent of the voyage.
Data are stored in Simrad *.raw format at CSIRO. There are 22 files totaling 1.56 GB of raw data in this dataset.
No processing has been conducted on this data.
Additional information regarding this dataset, including the settings used, is contained in the GSM data acquisition and processing report. Additional data products may be available on request.
Lineage
Progress Code: completedtext: westlimit=153; southlimit=-27.75; eastlimit=155; northlimit=-26.25; projection=WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)
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Geophysical Survey and Mapping website information for this data set and link to downloading data. (Geophysical Survey and Mapping website information for this data set)
url :
https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/gsm/gsm_extract.cfm?survey=IN2017_E03&instrument=ME70![]()
RV Investigator survey information
url :
https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_list.cfm?source_id=309![]()
Marine National Facility home page (MNF home page)
url :
https://mnf.csiro.au/![]()
Geophysical Survey and Mapping data acquisition and processing report
url :
https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/gsm/get_report.cfm?survey=in2017_e03![]()
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