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MB-System Documentation

    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  MB-System cookbooks (significantly out of date)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.