This Simrad EK60 sample data set, recorded north east of the South Orkney Islands, is provided by The British Antarctic Survey for the purposes of software and tools experimentation and comparison.
The data were collected during cruise JR230 in December 2009 and have been selected as a exemplar of an Antarctic krill swarm.
26M JR230-D20091215-T121917.raw
The transects.toml contains information about the example,
JR230-metadata.toml contains cruise metadata, and
ZDLP-D20091210-cal.toml the calibration in TOML
format. The data files are
provided in Simrad EK60 RAW
format.
Several open source, RAW file readers exist, including those for: Python and Julia.
Our thanks to the officers, crew and scientists onboard the RRS James Clark Ross for their assistance in collecting the data. The Western Core Box cruises and SF are funded as part of the Ecosystems Programme at the British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, a part of UK Research and Innovation.
This work was supported by the Antarctic Wildlife Research Fund and the Natural Environment Research Council grant NE/N012070/1.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
