MB-System Tutorial

A completely new MB-System Training Tutorial is now available for download from GitHub:

https://github.com/dwcaress/MB-System-Tutorial/

A Zip file with the tutorial contents is here:

https://github.com/dwcaress/MB-System-Tutorial/releases

Chapter 1 of the tutorial is a simple workflow and companion script containing the command line statements to help you go very quickly from raw data files to a grid and plot. There is a link to a training data set at Zenodo. Subsequent chapters guide you through exploring and applying corrections and edits to multibeam data.

Videos covering Chapter 1 and demonstrating use of the MB-System graphical tools mbedit, mbeditviz, mbvelocitytool, mbgrdviz, mbnavedit, and (soon) mbnavadjust are at the MB-System channel at YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@MBSystem1993

This is a work in progress. You can subscribe to the MB-System YouTube channel to enable notifications when new videos drop.

For advanced users, there is a subfolder in the download called “production mode scripts”, where we share command line scripts that are our own workflows for data from Kongsberg and Reson multibeam sonars aboard ships and AUVs. Note that we made the scripts modular. The first script (called “step 1”) is specific for the format we are dealing with, while the other two are completely independent. We plan to add more “step 1” scripts to cover other formats (XSE, SURF, etc). The images in the tutorial that illustrate the workflows are available at higher resolution in the subfolder “workflows”.

This updated tutorial is meant to familiarize you with MB-System and its capabilities. Detailed information about the command line statements can be found in the man(ual) pages and online documentation. If you’re still stuck, please write your questions to our official discussion list. If you find mistakes in the tutorial, kindly bring them to our attention in the “Issues” section at the GitHub repository.