The complexity of narrowband echo envelopes as a function of fish side-aspect angle
Open Access
- 12 June 2007
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in ICES Journal of Marine Science
- Vol. 64 (5), 1066-1074
- https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsm074
Abstract
Burwen, D. L., Nealson, P. A., Fleischman, S. J., Mulligan, T. J., and Horne, J. K. 2007. The complexity of narrowband echo envelopes as a function of fish side-aspect angle. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 1066–1074. High-frequency, narrowband acoustic signals may contain more information on fish size and orientation than previously thought. Our observations of dual frequency identification sonar (DIDSON) images of fish orientation paired with split-beam echo envelopes helped clarify why metrics such as echo duration have performed better than target strength measurements when predicting salmon lengths at side aspect. Fish orientation has a pronounced effect on the duration and shape of split-beam echo envelopes from large (80–130 cm) salmon insonified at side aspect. At near-normal aspect angles, echo envelopes are unimodal, symmetrical, and resemble echo envelopes from calibration spheres. With increasing oblique-aspect angle, echo shapes become less symmetrical as the number of peaks increases, and echo duration and amplitude become more variable. Using angle and range coordinates, peaks in an echo envelope can be traced to their origin on a DIDSON image. At oblique-aspect angles, discrete peaks develop that are reflected from regions close to the head and tail. In addition, the distance between peaks increases with increasing aspect angle and is larger than can be explained by swimbladder length.Keywords
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