MB-System Documentation

MB-System documentation

• • What’s new in MB-System
  • Short list of capabilities
  • List of MB-System programs and links to manual pages
  • List of supported swath data formats
  • How to download and install MB-System
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Future MB-System development plans
  • Copyright and Caveat

MB-System tutorial fragments 

• A mbnavadjust cookbook tutorial with sample data by Christian dos Santos Ferreira, Krystle Anderson and David W. Caress is available here: MB-System mbnavadjust cook book (currently under construction)

MB-System cookbooks (significantly out of date)

• The MB-System Cookbook tutorial documentation by Val Schmidt, Dale N. Chayes, and David W. Caress is available both as web pages and as a downloadable pdf document:

MB-System 5.0 Cookbook web pages

MB-System 5.0 Cookbook pdf file

Third-party bathymetry editor

• A document providing guidance for integrating a third-party bathymetry editor with the MB-System processing environment can be accessed here:

Integrating third-party bathymetry editors with MB-System

Writing new data formats

• A document providing guidance for supporting new data formats in MB-System can be accessed here:

Developer’s Guide to Writing an MB-System I/O Module

Data formats specifications

• A few swath data format specifications made available to us can be viewed here:

Data format specifications from sonar vendors and other swath mapping sonar links.

How mapping sonars work

• Documents concerning how mapping sonars work can be viewed here:

Some local and linked pages discussing how mapping sonars work.