Acoustic data from a tidal energy candidate site in Banks Strait, Tasmania, collected over approximately 2.5 months from December 2018 to February 2019. The dataset includes tidal current velocity and direction from an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) and volume backscattering strength from a biological echosounder (AZFP) as a fish biomass indicator. Fish aggregation metrics and environmental conditions were derived in post-processing.
Use Cases
- Modeling fish-current interactions based on concurrent ADCP and echosounder measurements.
- Assessing fish aggregation patterns in relation to tidal stage and diel cycles using derived metrics.
- Evaluating environmental conditions like current speed and shear for tidal turbine site suitability.
Strengths
- Concurrent sampling of physical and biological parameters for approximately 2.5 months.
- High-resolution ADCP data with 1-second temporal and 1-meter vertical intervals.
- Multi-frequency acoustic backscatter data with 4-second temporal resolution.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to a single site and season.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Data collected from a bottom-mounted mooring equipped with an ADCP and an Acoustic Zooplankton and Fish Profiler (AZFP).
- Time Range
- December 2018 to February 2019
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-22 02:53:23.118785; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Banks Strait, northeast of Tasmania, Australia