A large dataset of detection and submeter-accurate 3-D trajectories of juvenile Chinook salmon

Abstract

Acoustic telemetry has been used extensively to study the behavior of aquatic animals. The Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System (JSATS) is one such system; it was developed for studying juvenile salmonids but has been used to study numerous species. A recent innovation of the JSATS system is an acoustic transmitter that is small enough to be implanted through injection or small incision that doesn’t require sutures. Use of the JSATS system involves deploying cabled acoustic receivers at hydroelectric dams, or other structures, and autonomous acoustic receivers in free-flowing sections of a river. The raw detections from acoustic-tagged fish are processed to remove potential false positives. The clean detections (5,147,996 total) are used to generate detection events and to compute 3-D trajectories (403,900 total), which are used to assign fish to a passage route through a dam. Controlled field testing involving a high-accuracy Global Positioning System receiver is done to validate the submeter accuracy of the trajectories. The JSATS dataset could be reused for expanding the understanding of near-dam fish behavior.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Aug 06, 2021
Source ID
10.1038/s41597-021-00992-x

Entities

People

  • Hongfei Hou
  • Jayson J. Martinez
  • Jingxian Wang
  • M. Brad Eppard
  • Tao Fu
  • Xinya Li
  • Zhiqun Deng

Organizations

  • United States Army Corps of Engineers
  • United States Department of Energy

Tags

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Hydraulic Engineering.
  • Riverine Ecology

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects