Biomass Information Pane Description - Simrad ES80 Reference Manual

Reset size
You may have manually changed the physical size of the information
pane. To reset the information pane to its default size, select the
button in its top right corner.
size
Setup
Select to open the
Setup
box allows you to change the presentation parameters related to the
information pane.
Related tasks
Increasing the visibility of the information panes, page 145
Verifying that the bottom is correctly detected, page 84
Opening the Depth information pane to read the current depth, page 131
Related dialog boxes
Information Pane Options dialog box, page 433
Bottom Detection dialog box, page 430
Related functions
Transparency function, page 329

Biomass information pane description

The Biomass information pane displays an index of the biomass in the current echogram
view. The biomass index is the same as the NASC (Nautical area scattering strength)
with unit m 2 /nmi 2 .
How to open
To open the Biomass information pane, click in the chosen view to activate
it, then select the
Biomass
select the button on the top bar one more time. You can also select
the top right corner of the pane.
Description
The digit shown in the Biomass information pane
is a calculated index.
If more than one target is located in the
acoustic beam at the same depth, it is not
usually possible to resolve them separately.
This is often the case with schooling fish or
aggregations of zooplankton. In these cases,
echo integration is used to estimate biomass. Echo integration assumes that the total
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Information Pane Options
button on the top bar. To close the information pane,
User interface
Reset
dialog box. This dialog
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