MB-System Capabilities

List swath data formats supported by MB-System: mbformat*
Get swath data file information and statistics: mbinfo*
Produce arbitrary ascii tables from swath data: mblist*
Copy swath data with optional time/space windowing and format change: mbcopy*
Translate groups of swath data files between formats: mbm_copy
Set MB-System default parameters: mbdefaults*
List files referenced in a recursive datalist file tree: mbdatalist
Generate an MB-System datalist file referencing all identifiable swath files in the specified target directory.: mbm_makedatalist
Create or modify parameter files used to control mbprocess: mbset
Apply specified processing tasks to a swath data file: mbprocess
Convert between calendar time and unix time: mbtime

Interactive navigation editor: mbnavedit
List navigation from ping records in a swath data file: mblist
List navigation from navigation records in a swath data file: mbnavlist
Create or modify parameter files used to control mbprocess: mbset
Merge navigation with swath data file (among other tasks): mbprocess
Adjust navigation to match bathymetric features in overlapping swathes: mbnavadjust
Merge inertial and surface tracking navigation for submerged sonar platforms (e.g. ROVs and AUVs): mbauvnavusbl

Patch Test Analyis
- Interactive 3D visualization data cleaning and attitude bias patch test: mbeditviz
Bathymetry Data Processing

Automatic bathymetry data cleaning: mbareaclean
Automatic bathymetry data cleaning: mbclean
Interactive bathymetry data cleaning: mbedit
Interactive 3D visualization data cleaning and attitude bias patch test: mbeditviz
Extract bathymetry edits in edit save file format: mbgetesf
Extract bathymetry edits from Simrad Neptune software into edit save file format: mbneptune2esf
Obtain reference water sound velocity profile (SVP): mblevitus*
Extract water sound velocity profiles (SVPs) from data: mbsvplist
Interactive modeling of SVP effects on bathymetry: mbvelocitytool*
Create or modify parameter files used to control mbprocess: mbset
Recalculate or correct swath bathymetry and apply bathymetry edits from mbedit and mbclean: mbprocess
Obtain histogram of bathymetry data: mbhistogram*
Automatically grid bathymetry data: mbm_grid*
Grid bathymetry data: mbgrid*
Extract subarea of GMT grid file: mbm_grdcut*
Perform forward and inverse UTM projections of ASCII data triples: mbm_utm*
Estimate attitude time lag by cross correlation of apparent bottom slope with the roll time series: mbrolltimelag

Obtain grazing angle correction tables from sidescan/amplitude data for use by mbprocess: mbbackangle
Create or modify parameter files used to control mbprocess: mbset
Correct sidescan/amplitude data using tables generated by mbbackangle: mbprocess
Automatically mosaic sidescan/amplitude data: mbm_grid*
Mosaic sidescan/amplitude data: mbmosaic*
Grid sidescan/amplitude data: mbgrid*
Extract subarea of GMT grid file: mbm_grdcut*

GMT grid vizualization and survey planning: mbgrdviz*
Translate an mbgrdviz survey route file into an MBARI AUV mission script: mbm_route2mission*

Preprocess Reson 7k data (format 88), including applying time lag and biases to attitude and navigation data: mb7kpreprocess
Extract Jstar format (format 132) sidescan and subbottom data from Reson 7k (format 88) data files: mb7k2jstar
Extract Edgetech sidescan sonar data from Reson 7k format data, bin and lay the sidescan onto the seafloor, and output data in the MBF_MBLDEOIH formst (MBIO format id 71): mb7k2ss
mbauvloglist: Generate arbitrary text lists of values from MBARI AUV mission log files.

Apply grazing angle correction to sidescan/amplitude data: mbanglecorrect
Obtain grazing angle correction table from sidescan/amplitude data: mbbackangleold
Filtering of sidescan/amplitude data: mbfilter
Regenerate Simrad EM300/EM3000 sidescan data: mbsimradmakess

Last Updated: $Date: 2008/09/20 00:57:40 $ $Revision: 5.19 $