Sphere target strength calculator

The sphereTS package calculates the acoustic target strength (TS) of elastic spheres immersed in a fluid. It is intended for calculating the TS of the spheres used for calibrating echosounders used for quantitative estimates of marine organism backscatter.

There are two ways to use this package:

1. Call the functions in the sphereTS.py file from your code and use the results as required
2. Run sphereTSGUI.py and use the GUI to generate sphere TS estimates

Requirements

These packages are required for the non-GUI part:

• NumPy
• SciPy
• GSW

and these for the GUI part:

• Matplotlib
• traits
• traitsUI