Processed ship-based Multibeam Sonar Data (version 2) acquired off the coast of Papua New Guinea during the Melville expedition VANC21MV (2004)

This data set was acquired with a ship-based SeaBeam 2000 Multibeam Sonar system during Melville expedition VANC21MV conducted in 2004 (Chief Scientist: Dr. Charles Nittrouer). 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): Processes Controlling Depositional Signals of Environmental Change in the Fly River Sediment Dispersal System, Biogeochemical Cycling and Authigenic Mineral Formation in Suboxic Tropical Mobile Mud Belts, and Monsoon season cruise, and funding was provided by NSF grant(s): OCE02-03351 and OCE02-20600.