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

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