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 and will be available on conda-forge in the future.

To install the core library:

pip install echosms

To install with the optional GUI shape viewer:

pip install echosms[viewer]

Documentation

EchoSMs documentation is available here.

Viewer

EchoSMs includes a GUI tool for visualizing organism shapes. If installed with the [viewer] option, you can launch it using:

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.