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Multibeam Report for AVON05MV


Ship Name: Melville
Chief Scientist: Larson, Roger; Stram, Diana
University of Rhode Island
Source Organization: University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography (UCSD/SIO)
Start Date: 1999-04-15
End Date: 1999-04-23

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Multibeam Bathymetry

Cruise Details

Project: Avon Expedition
Instrument: SeaBeam 2000

Data Quality

Number of Files: 14
Number of Records: 43387
BATHYMETRY DATA Quantity Percentage
Number of Beams 5249827 100%
Number of Good Beams 5134879 97.81%
Number of Zero Beams 114948 2.19%
Number of Flagged Beams 0 0%

Navigation Totals

Total Time: 188.2865 hours
Total Track Length: 4137.516 km
Average Speed: 21.975 km/hr (11.8656 knots)

Cruise Bounds

Northern Extent: 20.993011
Southern Extent: -13.603962
Western Extent: -171.64238
Eastern Extent: -157.96371

Limits

Minimum Sonar Depth 0 Maximum Sonar Depth 0
Minimum Altitude 406 Maximum Altitude 5990
Minimum Depth 353 Maximum Depth 7054

File Information

Full Resolution Bathymetry as collected (raw): 9

Files File Size Description
SBunflagfix.99apr15 491.1KB SIO Swath-bathy SeaBeam 2000 format
SBunflagfix.99apr16 2.43MB SIO Swath-bathy SeaBeam 2000 format
SBunflagfix.99apr17 2.80MB SIO Swath-bathy SeaBeam 2000 format
SBunflagfix.99apr18 2.71MB SIO Swath-bathy SeaBeam 2000 format
SBunflagfix.99apr19 2.89MB SIO Swath-bathy SeaBeam 2000 format
SBunflagfix.99apr20 3.53MB SIO Swath-bathy SeaBeam 2000 format
SBunflagfix.99apr21 2.66MB SIO Swath-bathy SeaBeam 2000 format
SBunflagfix.99apr22 2.62MB SIO Swath-bathy SeaBeam 2000 format
SBunflagfix.99apr23 2.34MB SIO Swath-bathy SeaBeam 2000 format

Full Resolution Bathymetry (processed): 1

Files File Size Description
avon05mv_fuledit.b93.mb164.gz 33.15MB NGDC binary hydrographic sounding format

Products: 1

Files File Size Description
AVON05MV.sumplot.ps 25.7KB Postscript

Metadata Files: 3

Files File Size Description
AVON05MV_Multibeam.xml NCEI created ISO metadata
metadata.AVON05MV.txt 2.5KB Informal metadata text
swath_bathy_doc.rtf 210.1KB Metadata files in Rich Text Format