Swath sonar bathymetry during POLARSTERN cruise ARK-XVI/1 (PS57) with links to multibeam raw data files ...

• Main Authors: Daschner, Stefan, Schenke, Hans Werner
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• 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-XVI/1; Polarstern; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI AWI_Paleo; Greenland; Greenland Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.763450; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.763450

Multibeam data were collected during R/V Polarstern cruise ARK-XVI/1. Data recording was executed in Greenland Sea and supervised by a hydrographer. 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. Because of a hardware problem the time stamps within the files are erroneously increased by one day. This error was fixed for filenames but not for timestamps of events within the files. One file contains a measurement period not exceeding eight hours. The dataset consists of 79 files in ATLAS SURF format which are compressed with GZIP to size of 615 MB. 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, ...