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

摘要0623687(凯雷斯/查耶斯)智力价值：这项工作是对MB-System开发和维护支持的五年更新，MB-System是一个用于处理和显示条带测绘声纳数据的开放源码、免费提供的软件包。它包括用于编辑水深测量、分析声纳偏差参数和实时测量显示的功能和可视化工具的开发。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，它允许程序透明地使用61种受支持的条带声纳数据格式中的任何一种。通过这种方法，可以开发通用的实用程序，以统一的方式应用于来自各种来源的声纳数据。该软件所应用的数据包括水深、束流强度和侧面扫描数据。更广泛的影响：这项工作的更广泛的影响正在增加科学基础设施，满足研究人员使用多波束声纳数据进行海洋地质和地球物理研究的需要，并促进数据分析和可视化。这项工作支持纽约拉蒙特·多尔蒂地球天文台和加利福尼亚州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.