Echostack: An open-source Python software toolbox that democratizes water column sonar dataand processing
Abstract
Water column sonar data collected by echosounders are essential for marine ecosystem research, allowing the detection, classifi cation, and quantification of fish and zooplankton from many different ocean observing platforms. However, broad usage of these data has been hindered by the lack of software tools that allow intuitive and transparent data access, processing, and interpretation. We address this gap by developing Echostack, a toolbox of open-source packages leveraging distributed computing and cloud-interfacing libraries in the scientific Python ecosystem. These tools can be used individually or orchestrated together, which we will demonstrate in an end-to-end workflow.
Wu-Jung Lee
Principal Oceanographer
Valentina Staneva
Senior Data Scientist
Don Setiawan
Research Software Engineer at UW eScience Institute
I am a Research Software Engineer at the University of Washington with a strong focus in designing, developing, and maintaining scientific data analysis systems. I am a contributor to various open source software. I learning new technologies and apply them in my work.
Emilio Mayorga
Senior Oceanographer at APL-UW
Caesar Tuguinay
Graduate Student
I am interested in using signal processing techniques to understand acoustics!
Soham Kishor Butala
Software Data Operations Engineer at MAQ Software
Interested in disrupting the norms and reshaping the digital landscape!
Brandyn Lucca
Postdoc
