Core navigation data
Project Manager/Lead Scientist: Dave Caress

The MDUC (mooring data users committee) project provides for the institutional support of core navigation data from MBARI ships and ROVs. This is a continuing project since 2001.

The usual elements of this project are:

• Maintenance and minor development of software used for the processing and archiving of ROV and ship navigation.

• Data archiving and dissemination through the expedition database.

• Data validation through science data "champion".

In addition, for 2003 we propose a significant development and testing effort for ROV navigation:

• Shipboard testing of real-time ROV navigation and logging of raw (unprocessed) navigation data.

• Development of new algorithms for processing USBL + DVL ROV navigation.

• Extension of the Expedition database to support multiple versions of processed ROV navigation.