Swath sonar bathymetry during POLARSTERN cruise ARK-XVII/2 (PS59, AMORE) with links to multibeam raw data files

• Main Authors: Gauger, Steffen, Hartmann, Thomas, Hatzky, Jörn, Schenke, Hans Werner
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2002
• Subjects: DATE/TIME; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Uniform resource locator/link to raw data file; Underway cruise track measurements; Swath-mapping system Atlas Hydrosweep DS-2; ARK-XVII/2; Polarstern; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI AWI_Paleo; Arctic; Gakkel Ridge
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.763422; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.763422

Multibeam data were collected during R/V Polarstern cruise ARK-XVII/2. Data recording was executed during Arctic Mid Ocean Ridge Expedition (AMORE) mainly along Gakkel Ridge. Data are unprocessed and may contain outliers and blunders. Therefore the data should not directly be used for grid calculations and charting projects but need to be edited furthermore. One file contains a measurement period not exceeding eight hours. The dataset consists of 215 files in ATLAS SURF format which are compressed with GZIP to size of 1.18 GB. SURF data files can be processed using the software packages CARIS HIPS/SIPS or with the open source software package MB-System (http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/MB-System/). The source code for an application programming interface (API) to read and write SURF data is released by the Hydrosweep manufacturer Atlas Hydrographic, Bremen, and published under the GNU GPL. Contact mailto:[e-mail] for data access.