Raw ship-based Multibeam Sonar Data acquired during R/V Maurice Ewing expedition EW9606 (1996)

This data set was acquired with a ship-based Atlas Hydrosweep DS Multibeam Sonar system during Maurice Ewing expedition EW9606 conducted in 1996 (Chief Scientist: Dr. Brian Tucholke). These data files are of MBSystem Compatible format and include Swath Bathymetry and Acoustic Backscatter data that have not been processed. Data were acquired as part of the project(s): Off-Axis Structure of Oceanic Crust Within Ridge Segments and at Intervening Small Non-Transform/Offsets: Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and funding was provided by NSF grant(s): OCE95-03561.