Attention:
Please note that operations of the Fishing Echo Sounder Simrad EK 60 / EK 80 requires experienced scientific staff on board. The system is not operated by the ship's crew. Announce operations with the Fishing Echo Sounder Simrad EK 60 / EK 80 to AWI-Logistics prior to the cruise and clarify the data transfer after the cruise.
Data quality of Fishing Echo Sounder Simrad EK 60 / EK 80 is decreased by operating other Echo Sounders. Repeatable disturbances wered detected from simultaneously operating a) POSIDONIA, b) Deep Water Sounder Simrad EA 500 DWS, c) Sonar Doppler Speed Log DOLOG and d) Sediment Echo Sounder Parasound P70. Switch off these Echo Sounders for high data quality.
Summary
Transducer Frequency:
Responsible Persons
Components
38 kHz | 70 kHz | 120 und 200 kHz |
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Subdevices
Position
Data logging, storage and archiving
After the cruise, the operator must transfer the measurement data to AWI in accordance with AWI Logistics and via central AWI-data-transfer, where required meta data are added for data archiving and further processing.
Logged parameters
Central geographical ship's position and time standard
There is no centering of the GPS Position to the transducers.
Rawdata storage on board
root directory |
\\polsrv1\data01\fishsounder\... |
directory name |
CruiseNo \ |
file name |
CruiseNo-Dyyyymmdd-Thhmmss.raw |
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Data volume (MB per day) ca |
3500 |
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Number of files per day ca |
100 |
Dship
Data archiving on land
After the cruise the operator transfers the complete measurement data to AWI via central AWI-data-transfer. Then, the data (including meta data) can be extracted from https://www.pangaea.de/ (for authorized users only). The reduced, unevaluated DShip data set can be extracted from https://dms.awi.de.
PANGAEA Directory structure:
File format(s) |
??? |
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Calibration certificates |
NO |