Echoview's largest ever training course a success
Posted on Friday, 4 February 2011 | Permalink
Toby Jarvis and Bernd Wechner delivered Echoview's largest ever training course in Seattle from 27-29 Jan. The course was attended by 27 intrepid hydroacousticians from a variety of marine- and freshwater-based organisations:
- Ontario Power Generation (Toronto, Canada) - Scott Poulton
- Pacific Salmon Commission (Vancouver, Canada) - Andrew Gray, Yunbo Xie, Fiona Martens and Jacqueline Nielitz
- Oregon State University (Corvallis, USA) - Chad Waluk and Neal McIntosh
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Nanaimo, Canada) - Chelsea Stanley and George Cronkite
- Northwest Fisheries Science Center (Seattle, USA) - Julia Clemons and John Pohl
- Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. John's, Canada) - Livia Goodbrand, Riley Pollom and Laura Wheeland
- University of Toledo (Toledo, USA) - Mark DuFour and Jeremy Pritt
- Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research (Petaluma, USA) - Sarah Ann Thompson and Marcel Losekoot
- Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (Beaufort, USA) - Erik Ebert
- University of Washington (Seattle, USA) - David McGowan, Julie Keister and Iris Kemp
- Klohn Crippen Berger (Edmonton, Canada) - Dustin Bailey
- Worley Parsons (Calgary, Canada) - Craig Mushens
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, USA) - Mark Bevelhimer
- Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation (Jinja, Uganda)/University of Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland) - Anthony Taabu Munyaho
- North Carolina State University (Raleigh, USA) - Jacob Hughes
The course followed the universal framework for data processing and introduced the students to Echoview's powerful tools to achieve this, including:
- Transducer geometry
- EV files, data files and variables
- Operators
- Single-target detection and fish tracking
- Schools detection
- Analysis variables
- Automation (COM scripting)
- 4D visualisation (scenes)
If you're interested in attending an Echoview training course, we'd love to hear from you! Email us at training@echoview.com today.
