Processed ship-based Multibeam Sonar Data (version 1) acquired off the coast of California, USA during the Ocean Alert expedition MBARI98_santabarbara (1998)

This data set was acquired with a ship-based Kongsberg EM300 Multibeam Sonar system during Ocean Alert expedition MBARI98_santabarbara conducted in 1998 (Chief Scientist: Dr. David Clague). These data files are of MBSystem format and include Acoustic Backscatter, Swath Bathymetry, and Sidescan data and were processed at sea using the open source MB-System multibeam sonar processing software. These data are included in the GMRT Synthesis, version 1.