Processed Multibeam Sonar Data (version 1) from the Ross Sea acquired during Nathaniel B. Palmer expedition NBP0501 (2005)

• 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; Subduction Zone; Bathymetry/Topography; Sonar:Multibeam; Bathymetry:Swath; Backscatter:Acoustic; Sidescan; Marine-Geo Digital Library (MGDL); NBP0501; Antarctica: Ross Sea; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Ross Sea; Pacific; Kongsberg; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://get.iedadata.org/metadata/iso/310396

This data set was acquired with a Kongsberg model EM120 multibeam sonar system during Nathaniel B. Palmer expedition NBP0501 conducted in 2005 (Chief Scientist: Dr. Arnold Gordon). These data files include Acoustic Backscatter, Swath Bathymetry, Sidescan data and were processed at sea using the open source MB-System multibeam sonar processing software. Data were acquired as part of the project(s): Interannual Variability in the Antarctic-Ross Sea (IVARS): Nutrients and Seasonal Production; Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Reconstructions of the Southwest Pacific; ANSLOPE mooring recovery, and funding was provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation.