Data and Hardware Compatibility Services

As a result of close and ongoing collaboration with the fisheries acoustics community, Echoview is used to analyze data from:

Single-beam echosounders, including:

• Single-beam, dual-beam and split-beam systems
• Wideband/broadband systems
• Multibeam echosounders and sonars (including data from imaging sonars/acoustic cameras)
• Omnisonars and scanning sonars
• Acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP)
• Cameras
• External sensors

Supported hardware
Echoview is compatible with the data files logged by a wide range of hardware, and support is added for new formats as required. The complete and most recent list of supported formats is provided in the Echoview help file.

Single-beam echosounders
ASL Environmental Sciences Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP)
BioSonics model 102, DE4000, DE5000, DE6000, DT4000, DT5000, DT6000 and DTX series
Furuno FCV-38 (in ICES SONAR-netCDF4 format), FQ80, ETR-30N, and FCV-30
HTI Models 241, 243 and 244
Kongsberg EA640, EA500, EY500, EA600 and EA400
Nortek Signature profilers (narrowband echosounder data)
Precision Acoustic Systems PAS-103
SciFish 2100
Simrad EK80 (including WBT, WBAT, ES80), ES80, EK70, EK60, EK15, ES70, ES60, EQ60, EY60, EK500
SonarData EchoListener
Sonic KFC and KFS series
Zunibal ZSR

Wideband/broadband echosounders
Simrad EK80 (including WBT, WBAT, ES80) 
Kongsberg EA640

Multibeam echosounders and sonars
Blueprint Subsea Oculus V1 series
iXblue SeapiX
Kongsberg EM series, M3, Flexview
NORBIT Winghead and WBMS
R2Sonic Sonic series recorded by QINSy or HYPACK
Simrad SM2000, ME70, SH90 and SX90
Sound Metrics ARIS and DIDSON
Teledyne BlueView 2D imaging sonars
Teledyne Odom MB2
Teledyne Reson SeaBat T20, 6K series, 7K series and 8K series
WASSP WMB-3250 and converted data recorded by generation 3 systems

Omnisonar and scanning sonars
Kongsberg Mesotech MS 1000
Simrad CS90, MF90, SC90, SH80, SH90, SN90, SP70, ST90, SU90, SX90 and SY50

ADCP
RD Instruments Workhorse series

Media
Video recorded to *.mov, *.avi, *.wmv, *.mpeg, *.mp4 or *.m4v files
Still images saved as *.jpg or *.jpeg files

External sensors
Data from selected external sensors such as GPS units, motion reference units (MRUs) and trawl sensors that is recorded to supported file formats listed above

Generic file formats
Unsupported file formats can be converted or written to generic formats for immediate use in Echoview. Echoview Software works with hardware companies to provide compatibility via the Echoview-defined binary EVD file format. Manufacturers using the EVD format include Exail (formerly iXblue) SeapiX and ZunibalZSR.

Other generic data file formats include text (CSV) file formats and the ICES standard HAC format. 

Other hardware
If your hardware model is not listed but similar instruments from the same manufacturer are listed, Echoview may be able to read your files.

If your file format is not supported, but you would like it to be, we look forward to hearing from you.

More information can be found in our Data and Hardware Support brochure or simply send us a request and we will provide you further information.