Expression of interest: 5-day practical echosounder data processing course

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Hi all,

I’m considering running an in-person training course in St Andrews, Scotland, on practical echosounder data processing using open-source tools.

The course would run over five days and would be fully hands-on, starting with raw acoustic data and working through to quantitative outputs suitable for reporting, biomass estimation and modelling.

The focus would be on practical workflows rather than acoustic theory alone, including:

  • reading and organising raw echosounder data;
  • dealing with noisy or difficult datasets;
  • extracting acoustic features such as fish schools, krill swarms and scattering layers;
  • validating and summarising detected features;
  • estimating biomass;
  • preparing acoustic outputs for downstream analysis, modelling or ML workflows.

The course would be aimed at people who collect, process or interpret active acoustic data and want a clearer route from raw data to defensible outputs.

At this stage, I’m trying to judge whether there would be enough interest to make it viable. I would likely need around 10 participants. Indicative cost would be in the region of £600–£1,000 per person, depending on the final format, venue and participant type.

I would also aim to tailor part of the course around the practical challenges participants are currently facing, so it would be useful to hear what topics or problems people would most like covered.

Please comment or message me if this would be of interest.

Best,
Roland Proud (roland.proud@cuparanalytics.com)
Cupar Analytics (www.cuparanalytics.com)

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