Sentry AUV near-bottom processed swath bathymetry data (*p.mb88 format), summit of Loihi Seamount (Hawaii) and FeMO hydrothermal vent site (TN293, 2013)

This processed swath bathymetry data set was collected at the summit of Loihi Seamount, including Pele's Pit, and the FeMO hydrothermal vent site with a Reson SeaBat 7125 multibeam sonar system during Sentry AUV dives Sentry165, Sentry166, Sentry167, Sentry168 (FeMO), Sentry169, Sentry171, and Sentry172. The data files are in MB-System-compatible format (mbio format 88) and contain processed swath bathymetry and acoustic backscatter data. The dives were conducted during the 2013 R/V Thompson cruise TN293 (chief scientist Craig Moyer, Western Washington University) as part of the project called Ecology of microbial mats at seamount associated Fe-rich hydrothermal vent systems. Funding was provided with NSF award OCE11-55756 and by the Schmidt Ocean Institute. The AUV was operated by WHOI:NDSF. The data files were reprocessed in 2016 by Jennifer Paduan (MBARI) with funding provided by a grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to MBARI.