We’re delighted to announce the addition of the innovative echosounder feature to our Origin acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs), significantly enhancing their ability to collect comprehensive marine environmental data in a single deployment.
This new capability enhances offshore environmental monitoring by enabling simultaneous measurement of water velocities and biological activity, with the echosounder working alongside the ADCP’s existing functionality to record detailed insights into marine environments. This data is then brought to life through post processing in Echoview.
“Echosounder is a fantastic addition to our Origin ADCPs. In echosounder mode, Origin sends much shorter pulses of sound into the water, allowing it to produce very high resolution profiles of backscatter intensity. We can interleave echosounder and ADCP pulses in the same schedule, enabling simultaneous collection of both data types. This means we can collect measurements of water velocities and the scatterer environment, to cover both hydrodynamical and ecological aspects of a deployment site.” Eleanor Stanton, ADCP Associate Product Manager, Sonardyne.
The echosounder feature collects detailed backscatter measurements from objects in the water column, including gas bubbles, biological organisms, fish shoals and physical processes such as internal waves and sediment plumes. When combined with the ADCP’s water velocity measurements, users gain unprecedented insight into the complete marine environment from a single instrument.
Echoview is advanced echosounder and sonar data processing software, offering capabilities that range from easy data visualisation to sophisticated target detection and analysis. It is widely recognised as the industry standard for water column active acoustic data processing and is trusted by professionals worldwide for environmental assessments and scientific research. We’ve worked closely with Echoview Softwareto ensure that Origin ADCP users can begin processing their echosounder data with Echoview from day one.
“We are committed to implementing the latest advancements in hydroacoustic technology in our software to support scientific endeavours worldwide. By providing compatibility with echosounder data from Sonardyne’s Origin ADCPs from launch, we ensure that users can efficiently and seamlessly process data from innovative deployments, helping to drive progress in environmental monitoring and facilitating research across diverse applications. The quality of echosounder data that Origin ADCPs can collect will be used to extract all manner of useful metrics, particularly from a temporal perspective. As technology evolves, we look forward to expanding our capabilities further, providing even greater flexibility and support for future innovations in the field.” Briony Hutton, Chief Scientist and Product Manager, Echoview Software.
The Origin ADCP echosounder and data processing partnership represents our commitment to providing advanced solutions for marine environmental monitoring, supporting sustainable offshore developments with comprehensive data collection and analysis tools.
“Recognising the benefit of delivering Origin echosounder mode supported by a hydroacoustic data processing software programme, there was no other choice than Echoview. As the world’s premier software package for processing hydroacoustic data, Echoview provides powerful and comprehensive capability for processing and analysis of echosounder data collected by Origin ADCPs. We’re delighted to embark on the collaboration with Echoview Software and we look forward to seeing where the solution of Origin echosounder combined with Echoview will be applied in future.” Michelle Barnett, Business Development Manager – Ocean Science, Sonardyne
We look forward to bringing you examples of echosounder and Echoview in action in the near future.
Pictured L-R. Will Reis, Sales Manager, Sonardyne, Brett Merritt, CEO, Echoview and Mike Palin, Regional Sales Manager (Europe), Echoview with an Origin 600 ADCP