Other Resources
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Software
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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 <https://www.echoview.com/>`_:
  a GUI-based proprietary software,
  the current go-to tool for echosounder data analysis

- `EchoView R <https://github.com/AustralianAntarcticDivision/EchoviewR>`_:
  interfacing R and EchoView,
  related `paper <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2015.00015/full>`_

- `Echogram <https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=echogram>`_:
  an R package for reading data in the
  `HAC <http://www.ices.dk/sites/pub/Publication%20Reports/
  Cooperative%20Research%20Report%20%28CRR%29/crr278/crr278.pdf>`_ format

- `EchoR <https://gitlab.ifremer.fr/md0276b/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 <https://bitbucket.org/echoanalysis/esp3/overview>`_:
  a Matlab package for sonar data analysis.

- `ExCal <https://github.com/gavinmacaulay/calibration-code>`_:
  a Matlab package to calculate calibration coefficients for EK/ES60 echosounders.

- `LSSS <https://cmr.no/projects/10396/lsss/>`_ (Large Scale Survey System)

- `MATECHO <https://usermanual.wiki/Pdf/MatechoUserManual18052017.963673607.pdf>`_:
  requires Matlab and Movies3D

- `Movies3D <https://forge.ifremer.fr/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/movies3d/index.php/Accueil>`_:
  reads and writes HAC files and is capable of joining EK60 and ME70 data

- `PyEchoLab <https://github.com/CI-CMG/pyEcholab>`_:
  an open-source Python package based solely on the NumPy library

- `Sonar4 and Sonar5-Pro <http://folk.uio.no/hbalk/sonar4_5/index.htm>`_


Echosounder information
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- `ASL Environemntal Sciences Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) <https://aslenv.com/azfp.html>`_
- `Kongsberg Simrad EK60 <https://www.simrad.net/ek60_ref_english/default.htm>`_
- `Kongsberg Simrad EK80 <https://www.kongsberg.com/maritime/products/mapping-systems/fishery-research/scientific-echo-sounders/ek80/>`_