Raw ship-based Multibeam Sonar Data from the Drake Passage acquired during R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer expedition NBP0812 (2008)

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: IEDA: Marine-Geo Digital Library 2009
• Subjects: R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer; Oceans; Marine Geoscience; Solid Earth; Antarctica; Southern Ocean; Bathymetry/Topography; Sonar:Multibeam; Bathymetry:Swath; Sidescan; Backscatter:Acoustic; Marine-Geo Digital Library (MGDL); NBP0812; Antarctica: Drake Passage; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Drake Passage; Kongsberg; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://get.iedadata.org/metadata/iso/310062

This data set was acquired with a ship-based Kongsberg EM120 Multibeam Sonar system during Nathaniel B. Palmer expedition NBP0812 conducted in 2008 (Chief Scientist: Dr. Teresa Chereskin). These data files are of MBSystem Compatible format and include Sidescan, Swath Bathymetry, and Acoustic Backscatter data that have not been processed. Data were acquired as part of the project(s): Dynamics and Transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in Drake Passage, and funding was provided by NSF grant(s): ANT06-36493.