This dataset contains long-term passive acoustic data (i.e. underwater sound recordings) collected from Krill Observational Mooring for Benthic Investigations (KOMBI) seafloor lander platforms and Mooring for Epipelagic Echo-sounding of Krill (MEEK) platforms. In 2021 an AAD Moored Acoustic Recorder was integrated into each of the three KOMBIs deployed during the TEMPO voyage. MARs contained a factory calibrated HTI hydrophone and AAD-calibrated electronics that recorded continuously producing hour-long wav files at 12 kHz sample rate 16-bit depth. The start date and time of each recording is embedded in the file name of each wav file (i.e. yyyy-mm-dd_HH-MM-SS). Passive acoustic recorders recorded low and mid-frequency sounds that may be used for investigation of physical environment (e.g. ice, wind, waves, earth), biological environment (e.g. animal vocalisations and sounds) and anthropogenic noise (e.g. sounds produced by ships, construction, and other human activities). Related dataset: AAS_4102_longTermAcousticRecordings

This dataset contains long-term passive acoustic data (i.e. underwater sound recordings) collected from Krill Observational Mooring for Benthic Investigations (KOMBI) seafloor lander platforms and Mooring for Epipelagic Echo-sounding of Krill (MEEK) platforms. In 2021 an AAD Moored Acoustic Recorder was integrated into each of the three KOMBIs deployed during the TEMPO voyage. MARs contained a factory calibrated HTI hydrophone and AAD-calibrated electronics that recorded continuously producing hour-long wav files at 12 kHz sample rate 16-bit depth. The start date and time of each recording is embedded in the file name of each wav file (i.e. yyyy-mm-dd_HH-MM-SS). Passive acoustic recorders recorded low and mid-frequency sounds that may be used for investigation of physical environment (e.g. ice, wind, waves, earth), biological environment (e.g. animal vocalisations and sounds) and anthropogenic noise (e.g. sounds produced by ships, construction, and other human activities). These data are for recorder 001 - also see the metadata records for recorders 002 and 003.

This dataset contains long-term passive acoustic data (i.e. underwater sound recordings) collected from Krill Observational Mooring for Benthic Investigations (KOMBI) seafloor lander platforms and Mooring for Epipelagic Echo-sounding of Krill (MEEK) platforms. In 2021 an AAD Moored Acoustic Recorder was integrated into each of the three KOMBIs deployed during the TEMPO voyage. MARs contained a factory calibrated HTI hydrophone and AAD-calibrated electronics that recorded continuously producing hour-long wav files at 12 kHz sample rate 16-bit depth. The start date and time of each recording is embedded in the file name of each wav file (i.e. yyyy-mm-dd_HH-MM-SS). Passive acoustic recorders recorded low and mid-frequency sounds that may be used for investigation of physical environment (e.g. ice, wind, waves, earth), biological environment (e.g. animal vocalisations and sounds) and anthropogenic noise (e.g. sounds produced by ships, construction, and other human activities). These data are for recorder 001 - also see the metadata records for recorders 002 and 003.

This dataset contains long-term passive acoustic data (i.e. underwater sound recordings) collected from Krill Observational Mooring for Benthic Investigations (KOMBI) seafloor lander platforms and Mooring for Epipelagic Echo-sounding of Krill (MEEK) platforms. In 2021 an AAD Moored Acoustic Recorder was integrated into each of the three KOMBIs deployed during the TEMPO voyage. MARs contained a factory calibrated HTI hydrophone and AAD-calibrated electronics that recorded continuously producing hour-long wav files at 12 kHz sample rate 16-bit depth. The start date and time of each recording is embedded in the file name of each wav file (i.e. yyyy-mm-dd_HH-MM-SS). Passive acoustic recorders recorded low and mid-frequency sounds that may be used for investigation of physical environment (e.g. ice, wind, waves, earth), biological environment (e.g. animal vocalisations and sounds) and anthropogenic noise (e.g. sounds produced by ships, construction, and other human activities). These data are for recorder 002 - also see the metadata records for recorders 001 and 003.

This dataset contains long-term passive acoustic data (i.e. underwater sound recordings) collected from Krill Observational Mooring for Benthic Investigations (KOMBI) seafloor lander platforms and Mooring for Epipelagic Echo-sounding of Krill (MEEK) platforms. In 2021 an AAD Moored Acoustic Recorder was integrated into each of the three KOMBIs deployed during the TEMPO voyage. MARs contained a factory calibrated HTI hydrophone and AAD-calibrated electronics that recorded continuously producing hour-long wav files at 12 kHz sample rate 16-bit depth. The start date and time of each recording is embedded in the file name of each wav file (i.e. yyyy-mm-dd_HH-MM-SS). Passive acoustic recorders recorded low and mid-frequency sounds that may be used for investigation of physical environment (e.g. ice, wind, waves, earth), biological environment (e.g. animal vocalisations and sounds) and anthropogenic noise (e.g. sounds produced by ships, construction, and other human activities). These data are for recorder 002 - also see the metadata records for recorders 001 and 003.

This data set is a supplement to the R package, EchoviewR. EchoviewR is a free software package that acts as an interface between R and Echoview. It uses Component Object Model scripting to enable automated processing of active acoustic data. This data set contains the data necessary to run the vignette tutorials and package examples. The .raw files are acoustic data collected using an EK60 echosounder. They are a subset of the full acoustic data collected on the Krill Acoustic and Oceanographic Survey (KAOS) off Antarctica in the summer of 2003. The .EV template file was created using Echoview v6.1. The .ecs calibration file, .evl line object file and .evr region files are for use with this template. The region files designate off transect regions. The three pdf vignettes contain examples of reading data using EchoviewR, conducting school detection and running biomass estimation of Antarctic Krill. These data are intended only as a supplement to demonstrate the use of EchoviewR. This data is a subset of the KAOS data and as such, must NOT be used to formally estimate krill biomass. These data are a subset of data described in the metadata record at the provided URL.

The attached file details the workflow for the processing and analysis of active acoustic data (Simrad EK60; 12, 38, 120 and 200 kHz) collected from RSV Aurora Australis during the 2006 BROKE-West voyage. The attached file is in Echoview(R) (https://www.echoview.com/) version 8 format. The Echoview file is suitable for working with fisheries acoustics, i.e. water column backscatter, data collected using a Simrad EK60 and the file is set-up to read 38, 120 and 200 kHz split-beam data. The file has operators to remove acoustic noise, e.g. spikes and dropped pings, and operators for removing surface noise and seabed echoes. Echoes arising from krill are isolated using the ‘dB-difference’ method recommended by CCAMLR. The Echoview file is set-up to export the results of krill echo integration as both intervals and swarms. Full details of the method are available in Jarvis et al. (2010) and the krill swarms methods are described in Bestley et al. (2017).

The Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) has been collecting hydroacoustic data from its ocean going vessels for a number of years. This collection represents all hydroacoustic data gathered since 1990. The data are stored on the AAD Storage Area Network (SAN), and as such are only directly accessible by AAD personnel. Currently a very large volume of data are stored (greater than 2 TB), hence distribution of these data are logistically feasible really only for people with access to the SAN. As well as data, a large amount of documentation is provided - including methods used to collect these data, as well as any products resulting from these data (e.g. papers, reports, etc). In the past, these data have been collected under several ASAC projects, ASAC 357 (Hydroacoustic Determination of the Abundance and Distribution of Krill in the Region of Prydz Bay, Antarctica) and ASAC 1250 (Krill flux, acoustic methodology and penguin foraging - an integrated study) - ASAC_357 and ASAC_1250. As of 2019-12-19 the folders present in the acoustics data directory are: 1990-05_Aurora-Australis_HIMS 1991-01_Aurora-Australis_AAMBER2 1991-10_Aurora-Australis_WOCE91 1992-01_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Great-Taylors-Bay 1993-01_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Port-Arthur 1993-01_Aurora-Australis_KROCK 1993-02_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Mawson 1993-03_Aurora-Australis_WOES-WORSE 1993-08_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Port-Arthur 1993-08_Aurora-Australis_THIRST 1994-01_Aurora-Australis_SHAM 1994-12_Aurora-Australis_WOCET 1995-02_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Casey 1995-07_Aurora-Australis_HI-HO_HI-HO 1996-01_Aurora-Australis_BROKE 1996-01_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Port-Arthur 1996-02_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Casey 1996-08_Aurora-Australis_WASTE 1997-01_Aurora-Australis_BRAD 1997-09_Aurora-Australis_ON-ICE 1997-09_Aurora-Australis_WANDER 1997-11_Aurora-Australis_SEXY 1997-11_Aurora-Australis_V3 1997-98-050_V5 1998-02_Aurora-Australis_SNARK 1998-04_Aurora-Australis_PICCIES 1998-07_Aurora-Australis_FIRE-and-ICE 1998-09_Aurora-Australis_V2 1998-10_Aurora-Australis_SEXYII 1999-01_Aurora-Australis_V5 1999-03_Aurora-Australis_STAY 1999-07_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Port-Arthur 1999-07_Aurora-Australis_IDIOTS 1999-10_Aurora-Australis_V2 1999-11_Aurora-Australis_V4 2000-01_Aurora-Australis_V5 2000-02_Aurora-Australis_V6 2000-10_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Port-Arthur 2000-11_Aurora-Australis_V1 2000-12_Aurora-Australis_KACTAS 2001-01_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Mawson 2001-02_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Davis 2001-10_Aurora-Australis_CLIVAR 2002-01_Aurora-Australis_LOSS 2002-09_Aurora-Australis_V1 2002-10_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Port-Arthur 2003-01_Aurora-Australis_KAOS 2003-02_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Mawson 2003-03_Aurora-Australis_Off-charter 2003-09_Aurora-Australis_ARISE 2003-09_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_NW-Bay 2003-11_Aurora-Australis_V2 2003-12_Aurora-Australis_HIPPIES 2004-02_Aurora-Australis_V7 2004-05_AAD_Lab-testing 2004-06_Aurora-Australis_Off-charter 2004-10 2004-10_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_NW-Bay 2004-10_Aurora-Australis_V1 2004-11_Aurora-Australis_V2 2004-11_Howard-Burton_NW-Bay-testing 2004-12_Aurora-Australis_ORCKA 2004-12_Howard-Burton_NW-Bay-testing 2005-02_Aurora-Australis_V5 2005-04_Howard-Burton_Bruny-Island-testing 2005-11_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Port-Arthur 2005-11_Aurora-Australis_V2 2006-01_Aurora-Australis_BROKE-West 2006-02_Aurora-Australis_Calibration_Mawson 2006-03_Aurora-Australis_V5 2006-09_Aurora-Australis_V1 2006-12_Aurora-Australis_V2 2007-01_Aurora-Australis_SAZ-SENSE 2007-04_Aurora-Australis_V5 2007-08_Aurora-Australis_SIPEX 2011_10_20_Aurora_Calibration 200910_Aurora-Australis_BathymetryProcessing 201803_tankExperiments 20150102_Tangaroa 200708030_Aurora-Australis_V3_CEAMARC 200708040_Aurora-Australis_V4 200708060_Aurora-Australis_V6_CASO 200809000_Aurora-Australis_VTrials 200809010_Aurora-Australis_V1 200809020_Aurora-Australis_V2 200809030_Aurora-Australis_V3 200809050_Aurora-Australis_V5

Bathymetry data was collected using a Simrad EK60 echosounder. The sample data have been corrected for the relative locations of GPS antenna, transducers and waterline. A sound-speed value of 1500 m/s was applied when calculating depth. The seafloor depth itself was defined firstly as the depth of the sounder-detected bottom minus 10m (contact Simrad for more information about their bottom-detection algorithm), and then modified manually where necessary to ensure that the line followed the seafloor as perceived by eye from the echogram. This is therefore a subjective process, and the true seafloor depth may vary from the perceived depth by several hundred metres in the worst cases. The greatest uncertainties are typically at greater depths, e.g. greater than 1000 m. This seafloor depth line therefore refers to the approximate depth (not range from transducer) of the seafloor less 10 m, i.e. 10 m should be added to the 'depth' values in the *.CSV file to give the 'true' seafloor depth. Depths greater than 5000 m are not available due to the 12 kHz data not being logged any deeper than this. These data are preliminary and subject to change. Bathymetry data was exported during the voyage by Belinda Ronai. Post voyage enquiries however should be directed to Toby Jarvis.

This dataset contains digitized passive acoustic recordings from a hydrophone connected to an autonomous recording device both moored near the sea-floor in the Southern Ocean. Recordings were digitised at a sample rate of 500 Hz and were continuous over the period of operation. The intended purpose of these recordings was to collect baseline data on the acoustic environment (i.e. underwater sound fields). Underwater sounds that were recorded include sounds generated by Antarctic sea ice, marine mammals, and man-made sounds from ships and geo-acoustic surveys. Marine mammal sounds include calls from blue, fin, humpback, and minke whales. The data were collected in 2005 from a hydrophone deployed on a mooring in the Prydz Bay area.