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Documentation

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MB-System cookbooks (significantly out of date)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.