| Term | Description |
| ASCII:PPL | An ASCII format developed by the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF) at WHOI for providing submersible navigation data. Columns are formatID, date, time, vehicleID, latitude(dec.degrees), longitude(dec.degrees), depth(m), heading (dec.degrees), pitch (dec.degrees), roll(dec.degrees), 1.00. This format is ready for integration into MBSystem or other sonar processing software. |
| MGD77 | Marine Geophysical Data Exchange Format developed in 1977 - an ASCII file format for marine geophysical data (bathymetry, magnetics, and gravity). |
| GIF | Image file format stands for Graphics Interchange Format |
| Fledermaus:SD | Fledermaus 3D visualization file format. Files can be viewed with a free viewer available at http://www.ivs3d.com. |
| DOC | Microsoft Word Document |
| SEABIRD:TSG | SeaBird TSG format for TSG raw and TSGCONV converted data. Used on Langseth cruises mainly in 2009 (from MGL0814 to MGL0910). |
| ASCII:TSN | LDEO Shotpoint Nav ASCII format |
| MGDS:Nav | ASCII navigation file format that includes date/time, longitude and latitude. |
| R2R:Nav | ISO-compliant ASCII navigation file format comprising date/time, longitude and latitude. Standard navigation file format of the Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) Program. |
| Fledermaus:Scene | Fledermaus Scene visualization format. Files can be viewed with a free viewer available at http://www.ivs3d.com. |
| HTML | Webpage - Hypertext Transfer Protocol. |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| PNG | Image file format stands for Portable Network Format. |
| PPT | Microsoft PowerPoint File |
| XTF | eXtended Triton Format (XTF) is a Triton Imaging, Inc. file format for recording various types of hydrographic survey data. |
| GEOTIFF | A TIFF based interchange format for georeferenced raster imagery. |
| HDF5 | Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), version 5 |
| Binary | A file formatted using the binary numeral system, or base-2 number system, representing using two symbols, usually 0 and 1. Must be accompanied by a full description of the file format. |
| UHDAS | University of Hawaii Data Acquisition System format for ADCP data |
| P2 | U.K.O.O.A. P2/94 exchange format for raw marine positioning data in common use in oil and gas industry. |
| CNV | Seabird binary vendor format. |
| DIPOLE1D | Format for controlled-source electromagnetic and magnetotelluric data |
| ASCII:SourceInfo | LDEO Langseth source shot number, volume, pressure data, First appeared with cruise MGL2104. |
| ASCII:SCC | An ASCII format developed by the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF) at WHOI for providing 1Hz submersible navigation data. Columns are variable depending on which data are multiplexed into the file, but files contain a header line. |
| WAV | Waveform Audio File Format, for audio data |
| GEOJPEG | A georeferenced JPEG image |
| PS | Adobe PostScript Format |
| MOV | Quicktime Movie |
| RFF | Raw data format from Kongsberg GeoSwath interferometric system, contains bathymetry and sidescan. Can be read with software packages such as Caris and SonarWiz. |
| ASCII:RAYINVR | ASCII seismic modelling format used in the 2-D ray tracing, travel-time inversion, amplitude calculation and synthetics package called Rayinvr |
| SEGD | One of several standards developed by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists for storing geophysical data. |
| MP4 | |
| CSS3.0 | NNSA Core Table Database Schema CSS 3.0 |
| GDB | ESRI GeoDataBase |
| NonLinLoc | Standard format for seismic velocity models and earthquake location catalogues |
| EDF | Sippican MK21 Export Data File |
| MBSystem | Multibeam data formats from various manufacturers that can be read with the open source MBSystem package |
| P1 | U.K.O.O.A. P1/90 exchange format for raw marine positioning data in common use in oil and gas industry. |
| SHP | Shapefiles - A popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software. The format is developed and regulated by ESRI as a (mostly) open specification for data interoperability among ESRI and other software products. Shapefiles spatially describe geometries: points, polylines, and polygons. |
| XLS | Microsoft Excel binary vendor file format. Can be accommodated, but ASCII files are preferred to ensure longevity of access to data files. |
| ASCII:ESRI | ESRI ASCII grid format. The first six lines indicate georeferencing information for the grid, followed by the values listed in the order they would naturally appear (left-right, top-down). |
| JGOFS | An ASCII file format designed by the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study to store underway hydrographic, weather and ship state information. |
| PDF | Portable Document Format |
| BMP | Image file format, stands for BitMap |
| BAG | Bathymetric Attributed Grid (BAG) is a file format designed to store and exchange bathymetric data. |
| HMRG | Hawaii in-house BS (bathymetry/sidescan) binary file format developed over recent decades to handle data sets from the DSL-120, IMI30, MR1 and similar HMRG platforms. |
| ASCII:GXF | Grid eXchange File - an ASCII grid format developed by GeoSoft and commonly used for gravity/magnetics studies |
| PH5 | IRIS PASSCAL format that improves upon the SEG-Y format |
| JPEG | An image file format, best suited for photographs, that can contain 16.7 million colors (24-bit color information), and cannot use transparency. |
| SEED | Standard for the Exchange of Earthquake Data (SEED) |
| SEASOFT | Sea-Bird proprietary format. Conversion software available at website. |
| CARIS | Caris HIPS-formatted file |
| SIO86 | Custom format from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) for eXpendable BathyThermograph data. |
| DTF | HOBO Temperature Probe binary vendor format |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
| NetCDF:Grid | A gridded NetCDF data format. Use for a .grd file generated from GMT or MB-System. |
| KMZ | Google Earth ASCII file format (kmz or kml) written in Keyhole Markup Language |
| SEGY | One of several standards developed by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists for storing geophysical data. Originally developed for storing single-line seismic digital data. |
| JSF | EdgeTech raw sidescan, also MBSystem format 132. |
| SAC | IRIS PASSCAL format used with Seismic Analysis Code (SAC) software |
| KEB | Knudsen binary format. |
| ASCII | Text file format. Should contain a header describing contents of the file, including units. |
| RDF | GeoSwath Sonar Raw Data File |
| ASCII:MBSystemSVP | MBSystem standard sound velocity profile text file format. |
| MATLAB | Binary MATLAB vendor format. |
| GEOPNG | A georeferenced PNG file |
| NetCDF | Network Common Data Form |
