Processed ship-based Multibeam Sonar Data (version 2) acquired in the western South Pacific Ocean during the Melville expedition SOJN08MV (1997)

This data set was acquired with a ship-based SeaBeam 2000 Multibeam Sonar system during Melville expedition SOJN08MV conducted in 1997 (Chief Scientist: Dr. Neville Exon). These data files are of MBSystem format and include Swath Bathymetry data and were processed by the GMRT Team using the open source MB-System multibeam sonar processing software as part of the GMRT Synthesis effort. These data are included in the GMRT Synthesis, version 1.