Processed ship-based Multibeam Sonar Data (version 2) acquired off the coast of Papua New Guinea during the Melville expedition VANC19MV (2004)

This data set was acquired with a ship-based SeaBeam 2000 Multibeam Sonar system during Melville expedition VANC19MV conducted in 2004 (Chief Scientist: Dr. Andrea Ogston). 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. These data are included in the GMRT Synthesis, version 1. Data were acquired as part of the project(s): Biogeochemical Cycling and Authigenic Mineral Formation in Suboxic Tropical Mobile Mud Belts, Processes Controlling Depositional Signals of Environmental Change in the Fly River Sediment Dispersal System, and Monsoon season cruise, and funding was provided by NSF grant(s): OCE02-03351 and OCE02-20600.