Processed ship-based Multibeam Sonar Data (version 2) acquired off the coast of Australia in the Southern Ocean during the Melville expedition SOJN05MV (1997)

This data set was acquired with a ship-based SeaBeam 2000 Multibeam Sonar system during Melville expedition SOJN05MV conducted in 1997 (Chief Scientist: Dr. David Christie). 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 as part of the GMRT Synthesis effort. These data are included in the GMRT Synthesis, version 1. Funding was provided by NSF grant(s): OCE93-00867, OCE94-19323, and OCE94-20649.