From school to individuals: How detailed tridimensional observations using multibeam sonar have changed our understanding on the role of fish schools.

2010 ◽  
Vol 128 (4) ◽  
pp. 2278-2278
Author(s):  
Francois Gerlotto
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1998 ◽  
Vol 103 (5) ◽  
pp. 2939-2939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chafiaa Hamitouche ◽  
Valerie Fracasso ◽  
Carla Scalabrin

2009 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 1130-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Buelens ◽  
Tim Pauly ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
Arthur Sale

Abstract Buelens, B., Pauly, T., Williams, R., and Sale, A. 2009. Kernel methods for the detection and classification of fish schools in single-beam and multibeam acoustic data. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 1130–1135. A kernel method for clustering acoustic data from single-beam echosounder and multibeam sonar is presented. The algorithm is used to detect fish schools and to classify acoustic data into clusters of similar acoustic properties. In a preprocessing routine, data from single-beam echosounder and multibeam sonar are transformed into an abstracted representation by multidimensional nodes, which are datapoints with spatial, temporal, and acoustic features as components. Kernel methods combine these components to determine clusters based on joint spatial, temporal, and acoustic similarities. These clusters yield a classification of the data in groups of similar nodes. Including the spatial components results in clusters for each school and effectively detects fish schools. Ignoring the spatial components yields a classification according to acoustic similarities, corresponding to classes of different species or age groups. The method is described and two case studies are presented.


2009 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 935-949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasilis Trygonis ◽  
Stratis Georgakarakos ◽  
E. John Simmonds

Abstract Trygonis, V., Georgakarakos, S., and Simmonds, E. J. 2009. An operational system for automatic school identification on multibeam sonar echoes. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 935–949. A system for identifying and tracking fish schools is demonstrated, based on the analysis of multibeam sonar data obtained by a Simrad SP90 long-range sonar. Fish-school detection and identification techniques are similar to those commonly used for vertical echosounders, further enhanced with innovative processing algorithms applied to successive multibeam echograms, increasing the certainty that the identified objects are fish schools. Additionally, analysis of school dynamic parameters facilitates the classification of targets into certain groups, here discriminating the fish aggregating device-natant fish complex from tuna. Statistical analysis of selected tracks quantifies the spatio-temporal variability of the school descriptors, which are used retrospectively to select appropriate analysis thresholds. The algorithms are implemented in an acquisition, visualization, and processing software platform that is flexible regarding sonar characteristics (beam width and number of beams) and can be extended easily to track school echotraces in a three-dimensional mode.


1999 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Gerlotto ◽  
Marc Soria ◽  
Pierre Fréon

We present a methodology applying multibeam sonar for three-dimensional (3D) observation of fish schools that enhances the conventional use of vertical scientific echo sounders. The sonar we employ has 60 beams of 1.5° each. Its working frequency is 455 kHz. It is applied on a vertical plan normal to the vessel route, observing from the surface line to the bottom with a range set to 100 m. The sampled volume is 14 times larger than the volume observed with vertical echo sounding. The contribution of this new methodology to fisheries acoustics is detailed for school classification, internal school structure, spatial distribution of schools, fish behaviour, and biomass estimates. For each of these points, we present some preliminary results with the aim of defining the real progress in fisheries acoustics research as a result of 3D acoustics. Finally, we present a list of technical and methodological improvements that we are developing in order to make multibeam sonar fully adapted to fisheries acoustics.


JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
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JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre

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