Other resources

Software

Below is a list of software resources for processing ocean sonar data. When appropriate, we note whether the software is proprietary or open-source, as well as the programming language in which it is written.

• EchoView: a GUI-based proprietary software, the current go-to tool for echosounder data analysis
• EchoView R: interfacing R and EchoView [paper]
• Echogram: an R package for reading data in the HAC format
• EchoR: an R package to handle pre-processed fisheries acoustics data collected during sea surveys and to produce and analyse ec(h)osystem indices and maps based on fisheries acoustics data
• ESP3: a Matlab package for sonar data analysis. [paper]
• ExCal: a Matlab package to calculate calibration coefficients for EK/ES60 echosounders.
• LSSS (Large Scale Survey System) [paper]
• MATECHO: requires Matlab and Movies3D
• Movies3D: reads and writes HAC files and is capable of joining EK60 and ME70 data
• PyEcholab: an open-source Python package based solely on the NumPy library
• Sonar4 and Sonar5-Pro

Echosounder information

• ASL Environemntal Sciences Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP)
• Kongsberg Simrad EK60
• Kongsberg Simrad EK80