Processed ship-based Multibeam Sonar Data acquired during the Maurice Ewing expedition EW9608 (1996)

This data set was acquired with a ship-based Atlas Hydrosweep DS Multibeam Sonar system during Maurice Ewing expedition EW9608 conducted in 1996 (Chief Scientist: Dr. Robert Detrick). These data files are of MBSystem Compatible format and include Acoustic Backscatter and Swath Bathymetry data and were processed at sea using the open source MB-System multibeam sonar processing software. Data were acquired as part of the project(s): A Seismic Tomography Study of Mantle Bouguer Anomalies and Crustal Thickness Variations at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and funding was provided by NSF grant(s): OCE93-00450 and OCE94-01717.