Collaborative Research: Development and Support of the MB-System Software Package for Processing and Display of Swath Mapping Sonar Data

摘要0623687（Caress/Chayes）智力优势：这项工作是对MB系统开发和维护的五年支持更新，MB系统是一种用于处理和显示条带测绘声纳数据的开源、免费软件包。 它包括功能的开发以及编辑测深、分析声纳偏差参数和实时测量显示的可视化工具。 这项工作允许持续的用户支持，改进软件文档，并支持新的声纳数据格式。 该系统的核心是一个输入/输出库，允许程序透明地与61种支持的条带声纳数据格式中的任何一种一起工作。 通过这种方法，可以开发通用实用程序，可以以统一的方式应用于来自各种来源的声纳数据。 应用该软件的数据包括水深测量、波束强度和侧面数据。更广泛的影响：这项工作的更广泛影响是增加科学基础设施，满足研究人员使用多波束声纳数据进行海洋地质学和海洋物理学研究的需要，并促进数据分析和可视化。 这项工作支持了纽约的拉蒙多尔蒂地球观测站和加州的斯克里普斯海洋研究所的研究人员。

ABSTRACT 0623687 (Caress/Chayes)Intellectual Merit: This work is a five-year renewal of support for the development and maintenance of the MB-system, an open source, freely available software package for the processing and display of swath mapping sonar data. It includes the development of functionality as well as visualization tools for editing bathymetry, analyzing sonar bias parameters, and real-time survey display. The work permits on-going user support, improvement of software documentation, and support for new sonar data formats. The heart of the system is an input/output library that allows programs to work transparently with any of the 61 supported swath sonar data formats. Through this approach, generic utilities can be developed that can be applied in a uniform manner to sonar data from a variety of sources. Data to which this software is applied includes bathymetry, beam intensity, and sides can data. Broader Impacts: Broader impacts of the work are increasing the infrastructure for science, serving the needs of researchers using multi-beam sonar data for marine geology and geophysics research, and facilitating data analysis and visualization. This work supports researchers at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in New York and at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California.