Swath sonar bathymetry during POLARSTERN cruise ARK-III/3 (PS07) with links to multibeam raw data files

• Main Authors: Cherkis, Norman Z, Heidland, Klemens, Powitz, Bernd M, Wanninger, Lambert, Schenke, Hans Werner
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2011
• Subjects: DATE/TIME; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Uniform resource locator/link to raw data file; Underway cruise track measurements; Swath-mapping system SeaBeam; ARK-III/3; Polarstern; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI AWI_Paleo; Lambda; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.763922; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.763922

Multibeam data were collected during R/V Polarstern cruise ARK-III/3. Data recording was executed west of Svalbard and was supervised by four hydrographers. 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 normally contains a measurement period of one day. The dataset consists of 20 files in originally Seabeam binary multibeam format (*.geo) and additionally of 20 files converted into a more common Seabeam format (*.mb14). Both datasets are compressed with GZIP to size of 12.2 MB. Seabeam data files (*.mb14) can be processed using the open source software package MB-System (http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/MB-System/) or the software package CARAIBES from IFREMER.The results of the multibeam survey (phi, lambda, depth) can be found at doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.759290. Contact mailto:[e-mail] for data access.