EK Family

The EK80 scientific echo sounder systems provide high‐quality target strength, target position, and volume backscattering strength measurements over a large dynamic range for a wide range of frequencies. 

The EK80 Family comprises transceivers, transducers, EK80 software, and planning tools for all types of marine excavations using echo sounders.

Software 

At the heart of this family is the EK80 software which processes and displays the data from the acoustic signals transmitted by the echo sounder.

Transcievers and transducers

The transceiver functionality is placed in various available products such as WBT, WBT Mini, WBT Tube, EK80 Portable, and Portable Entry. Each of these transceivers is used with one or more suitable transducers, except the EK80 Portable Entry which is delivered with an ES38/200-18 transducer.

EK mission planner

For operating the EK echo sounders in autonomous mode the application EK mission planner is available. This allows the user to plan and configure operations before deploying the system.

ADCP

With the EC150-3C transducer, the EK80 repeats its performance as an innovative acoustic system. It combines the absolute backscatter measurements from the split-beam echo sounder with physical oceanographic measurements from the acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) beams. And it all happens in one single instrument.