acousticTS: Physics-Based Models for Acoustic Target Strength
Acoustic target strength (TS) represents the intensity of an echo returning from an individual scatterer such as bubbles, fish, or zooplankton. TS can be used to convert integrated or volumetric backscatter collected from fisheries acoustic surveys into units of number density (e.g. animals per m^3), abundance (e.g. number of animals), and biomass (e.g. kg). This parameter can also be used to aid in classifying backscatter, such as separating likely echoes of large predatory fish (e.g. adult cod) from smaller prey (e.g. shrimp). One way to estimate TS is to use physics-based models to calculate theoretical TS that comprise exact and approximate solutions as well as analytical approaches. The models provided can help provide TS estimates over broad statistical distributions of model parameters. Applications are described by Lucca et al. (2023) <doi:10.1121/10.0022459>, with fisheries-acoustics principles from Simmonds and MacLennan (2005) <doi:10.1002/9780470995303>.
| Version: | 2.0.6 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.0.0) |
| Imports: | grDevices, graphics, methods, parallel, pbapply, Rcpp, stats, tools, utils |
| LinkingTo: | BH, Rcpp, RcppArmadillo |
| Suggests: | knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: | 2026-09-26 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.acousticTS (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Brandyn Lucca 
[aut, cre, cph],
Arnie Lee Van Buren [ctb, cph] (Author and copyright holder of upstream
prolate_swf code adapted for this package),
Jeffrey E. Boisvert [ctb] (Coauthor of upstream prolate_swf code
adapted for this package) |
| Maintainer: | Brandyn Lucca <brandyn.lucca at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/brandynlucca/acousticTS/issues |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| Copyright: | See file inst/COPYRIGHTS. acousticTS copyright details |
| URL: | https://brandynlucca.github.io/acousticTS/, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7600659 |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| Language: | en-US |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | acousticTS results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | acousticTS.html , acousticTS.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Scattering boundary conditions (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | acousticTS_2.0.6.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
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