| Term | Description |
| PDF | Portable Document Format |
| EDF | Sippican MK21 Export Data File |
| ASCII:TSN | LDEO Shotpoint Nav ASCII format |
| SAC | IRIS PASSCAL format used with Seismic Analysis Code (SAC) software |
| HDF5 | Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), version 5 |
| Fledermaus:SD | Fledermaus 3D visualization file format. Files can be viewed with a free viewer available at http://www.ivs3d.com. |
| KEB | Knudsen binary format. |
| 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. |
| KMZ | Google Earth ASCII file format (kmz or kml) written in Keyhole Markup Language |
| ASCII | Text file format. Should contain a header describing contents of the file, including units. |
| ASCII:SourceInfo | LDEO Langseth source shot number, volume, pressure data, First appeared with cruise MGL2104. |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
| 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. |
| P1 | U.K.O.O.A. P1/90 exchange format for raw marine positioning data in common use in oil and gas industry. |
| ASCII:GXF | Grid eXchange File - an ASCII grid format developed by GeoSoft and commonly used for gravity/magnetics studies |
| JSF | EdgeTech raw sidescan, also MBSystem format 132. |
| JPEG | An image file format, best suited for photographs, that can contain 16.7 million colors (24-bit color information), and cannot use transparency. |
| WAV | Waveform Audio File Format, for audio data |
| MGD77 | Marine Geophysical Data Exchange Format developed in 1977 - an ASCII file format for marine geophysical data (bathymetry, magnetics, and gravity). |
| SEASOFT | Sea-Bird proprietary format. Conversion software available at website. |
| NetCDF:Grid | A gridded NetCDF data format. Use for a .grd file generated from GMT or MB-System. |
| UHDAS | University of Hawaii Data Acquisition System format for ADCP data |
| MATLAB | Binary MATLAB vendor format. |
| PNG | Image file format stands for Portable Network Format. |
| 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. |
| CSS3.0 | NNSA Core Table Database Schema CSS 3.0 |
| SEED | Standard for the Exchange of Earthquake Data (SEED) |
| PH5 | IRIS PASSCAL format that improves upon the SEG-Y format |
| 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. |
| BMP | Image file format, stands for BitMap |
| MP4 | |
| Fledermaus:Scene | Fledermaus Scene visualization format. Files can be viewed with a free viewer available at http://www.ivs3d.com. |
| 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). |
| CARIS | Caris HIPS-formatted file |
| DIPOLE1D | Format for controlled-source electromagnetic and magnetotelluric data |
| GDB | ESRI GeoDataBase |
| MOV | Quicktime Movie |
| PPT | Microsoft PowerPoint File |
| SEABIRD:TSG | SeaBird TSG format for TSG raw and TSGCONV converted data. Used on Langseth cruises mainly in 2009 (from MGL0814 to MGL0910). |
| MGDS:Nav | ASCII navigation file format that includes date/time, longitude and latitude. |
| HTML | Webpage - Hypertext Transfer Protocol. |
| CNV | Seabird binary vendor format. |
| GEOJPEG | A georeferenced JPEG image |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| NetCDF | Network Common Data Form |
| P2 | U.K.O.O.A. P2/94 exchange format for raw marine positioning data in common use in oil and gas industry. |
| JGOFS | An ASCII file format designed by the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study to store underway hydrographic, weather and ship state information. |
| GIF | Image file format stands for Graphics Interchange Format |
| GEOPNG | A georeferenced PNG file |
| NonLinLoc | Standard format for seismic velocity models and earthquake location catalogues |
| ASCII:MBSystemSVP | MBSystem standard sound velocity profile text file format. |
| DTF | HOBO Temperature Probe binary vendor format |
| SIO86 | Custom format from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) for eXpendable BathyThermograph data. |
| RDF | GeoSwath Sonar Raw Data File |
| SEGD | One of several standards developed by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists for storing geophysical data. |
| BAG | Bathymetric Attributed Grid (BAG) is a file format designed to store and exchange bathymetric data. |
| DOC | Microsoft Word Document |
| XLS | Microsoft Excel binary vendor file format. Can be accommodated, but ASCII files are preferred to ensure longevity of access to data files. |
| MBSystem | Multibeam data formats from various manufacturers that can be read with the open source MBSystem package |
| RFF | Raw data format from Kongsberg GeoSwath interferometric system, contains bathymetry and sidescan. Can be read with software packages such as Caris and SonarWiz. |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| PS | Adobe PostScript Format |
