Raw swath bathymetry and acoustic backscatter data acquired near-bottom in 2013 from the continental slope of the Canadian Beaufort Sea with MBARI mapping AUV on Arctic Ocean mission 20131002m1

• Main Authors: Paull, Charles, Dallimore, Scott, Melling, Humfrey
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance (IEDA) 2021
• Subjects: Sidescan; BackscatterAcoustic; BathymetrySwath; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canada; Beaufort Sea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26022/ieda/330221; http://doi.iedadata.org/330221

This swath bathymetry data set was collected with a Reson SeaBat 7125 multibeam sonar system on MBARI Mapping AUV mission 20131002m1 in 2013. The data files are in Reson s7k format (compatible with MB-System as mbio format 88) and contain raw swath bathymetry and acoustic backscatter data. The AUV survey mission was conducted during the 2013 CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier IOS cruise 2013-22 in the Beaufort Sea (Cruise Chief Scientist - Humfrey Melling, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada; project PI - Charlie Paull and investigators: David Caress and Eve Lundsten, MBARI). Data were acquired as part of a collaborative research project between MBARI, the Geological Survey of Canada, and Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Funding for the AUV mapping was provided from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.