Raw high-frequency EK80 echosounder datasets from autonomous sailbuoy campaign in Lofoten/Vesterålen 2018

In 2018, the autonomous surface vehicle sailbuoy Echo surveyed the coastal shelf surrounding the Lofoten and Vesterålen islands (aka. LoVe), Norway. The Echo was equipped with a EK80 high-frequency echosounder, and over the course of 131 field days, 8791 .raw EK80 echosounder files were captured, with a total size of ~750 GB.

In 2022, Akvaplan-niva published the complete, raw data from Echo's LoVe 2018 campaign in their research archive on Zenodo.

EK80 datasets from Sailbuoy Echo in LoVe 2018:

• 2018-03-08/2018-03-12
• 2018-03-13/2018-03-17
• 2018-03-18/2018-04-01
• 2018-04-02/2018-04-05
• 2018-04-06/2018-04-26
• 2018-04-27/2018-05-03
• 2018-05-04/2018-05-30
• 2018-05-31/2018-06-02
• 2018-06-03/2018-06-06
• 2018-06-07/2018-06-09
• 2018-06-10/2018-06-12
• 2018-06-13/2018-06-17
• 2018-06-18/2018-06-30
• 2018-07-01/2018-07-11
• 2018-07-12/2018-07-17
• 2018-07-18/2018-07-28
• 2018-07-29/2018-08-22

See also: Real-time oceanography captured by autonomous sailbuoy in Lofoten/Vesterålen 2018

The sailbuoy Echo 2018 LoVe campaign was part of the research project
Unmanned ocean vehicles, a flexible and cost-efficient offshore monitoring and data management approach