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DT-X Extreme Scientific Echo Sounder

The DT-X Extreme is an innovative and versatile echo sounder system that expands your data collection opportunities.

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Product Features




  • Portable, rugged, weather resistant design.

  • Flexible configuration with or without computer.

  • Integrated DGPS.

  • Compatible with non-continuous power supplies, automated shutdown and reboot based on power availability.

  • Programmable duty cycle for power conservation.

  • Features low side-lobe digital transducers.

  • Simultaneously supports multiple transducers and multiple frequencies, 38, 70, 120, 200, and 420 kHz Split Beam or Single Beam.

  • Side-looking, up-looking, or down-looking configurations for complete vertical and horizontal water column coverage.

  • Integrated transducer orientation sensor (pitch and roll) included for verification of transducer aim

  • Individual transducer cable lengths to 100 meters .

  • Visual Acquisition data collection and VisAcq AutoTrack real-time processing software is included.

  • Measurements and Methods Include: target strength, echo counting, echo integration, fish counting/tracking, automated bottom detection.

  • Automatic target detection.

  • Dynamic clutter mapping.

  • Detect target size, depth, geo-location, swimming direction, swimming speed.


Mobile Survey Applications




  • Scientific Fisheries Echo Sounder 

  • Fish Stock Assessment

  • Population Estimates

  • Size Distribution

  • Total Biomass Estimates

  • Vertical and Horizontal Distribution

  • Behavioral Studies

  • Plankton Biomass / Vertical Migration

  • Predator / Prey Relationships

  • Fish Schools, Individual Fish (all size classes), Plankton, Marine Mammals

  • Physical Oceanographic Measurements; Boundary, Mixing and Coherent Structure Detection

  • Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), ships of opportunity, unattended fish stock assessment mobile surveys and reporting

Fixed Location Monitoring Applications




  • Remote sites on rivers, dams, locks, and cooling water intakes, for unattended monitoring and reporting

  • Monitor fish passage and entrainment, upstream and downstream migration

  • Fish counting and sizing

  • 316(b) entrainment and impingement assessment

  • Monitor debris and vegetation entrainment

  • Moored surface buoy deployments for unattended water column monitoring and reporting

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