echoSMs

Making acoustic scattering models available to fisheries and plankton scientists via the world wide web

EchoSMs provides acoustic scattering models for fisheries and plankton acoustic research. By providing the models in an open-access and open-source software language (e.g, Python, R) and providing morphological and anatomical data in open data formats (e.g., HDF5, relational databases), the proper and appropriate use of these models can extend to the entire fisheries and plankton acoustics’ community.

Install

EchoSMs is available on the python Package Index as echosms. To install it:

uv add echosms

or with pip:

pip install echosms

Documentation

EchoSMs documentation is available here.

Viewer

EchoSMs includes a tool for visualizing organism shapes. If using uv, start it with:

uv run echosms-view

or if installed with pip:

echosms-view

Contributing

We welcome all contributions to echoSMs, be it code, test cases, bug reports, discussion of models, etc. Guidance on this is available in the echoSMs documentation.