Marine Geoscience Data System
RR2106 Sidescan
Sentry processed near-bottom low-frequency sidescan images (GeoTIFF format) from the East Pacific Rise, RR2106 (2021)
Near-bottom sidescan data was collected with an Edgetech 2205 sidescan system on AUV Sentry dives 597-606 during PLUME RAIDERS cruise RR2106 in 2021 at 16.5°-18° S on the Southern East Pacific Rise (investigators Chris German, Joseph Resing, Scott White). Sidescan at 240Khz was collected during 5 of the earlier Sentry dives (dives 597, 598, 599, 601, 602) as the low-frequency channel. A regular interference pattern is present in all 240Khz sidescan mosaics collected during this cruise. This led to the use of the 120 Khz low-frequency sonar instead for Sentry dives 600 and 603-606. The data files are in GeoTIFF format and were processed using SonarWiz version 7 to merge with corrected AUV navigational records, trim the swath edges, bottom-track, and equalize gain across-track. The files were generated as part of the projects called Finding hydrothermal chimneys along the southern East Pacific Rise with machine learning approaches to AUV-based sonar data; and, Are Low-Temperature Hydrothermal Vents an Important but Overlooked Source of Stabilized Dissolved Iron to the Ocean? Funding was provided through NSF grants OCE20-06265, OCE17-55571, and OCE17-56402.
Device Info
Sonar:Sidescan
EdgeTech:2205
Platform
Sentry (AUV)
WHOI:NDSF
Quality
2
The data have been processed/modified to a level beyond that of basic quality control (e.g. final processed sonar data, photo-mosaics).

Data Files

Acquisition Information

Documents

Data Citation Information

Related Data Sets

ISO/XML Metadata

Expand