Research assistant Linda Nyugen has been patiently waiting for the acoustic echosounder from the Coordinated Simultaneous Physical-Biological Sampling Using ADCP-Equipped Ocean Gliders expedition to be recovered. Using acoustic release technology, the echosounder (seen here) was sent to the surface after several weeks of data collection. Now that it has been safely recovered, Linda can plug into the echosounder and download its contents, revealing rich acoustic data on the small organisms, like zooplankton and fish, that inhabit the area in which it was deployed. These data will be used as a comparison dataset to meet the mission goal of testing the utility of Seagliders for collecting similar data types.
Downloading Echosounder Data
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Research assistant Linda Nyugen has been patiently waiting for the acoustic echosounder from the Coordinated Simultaneous Physical-Biological Sampling Using ADCP-Equipped Ocean Gliders expedition to be recovered. Using acoustic release technology, the echosounder (seen here) was sent to the surface after several weeks of data collection. Now that it has been safely recovered, Linda can plug into the echosounder and download its contents, revealing rich acoustic data on the small organisms, like zooplankton and fish, that inhabit the area in which it was deployed. These data will be used as a comparison dataset to meet the mission goal of testing the utility of Seagliders for collecting similar data types.