Short List of MB-System Capabilities:
- General Documentation
- MB-System manual page: mbsystem
- MB-System I/O library manual page: mbio
- Version 6 Programs:
These are new programs that are being developed for the next major version
of MB-System. These programs use a different style of command line arguments than all previous versions of MB-System (specifically, the GNU long style arguments, e.g. --verbose rather than -V).
- General Processing
- Create or modify an MB-System platform file, which represents a survey system as a set of sensors with positional and angular offsets: mbmakeplatform
- Perform preprocessing of the logged data comprising a survey, including applying lever arm corrections (if necessary) and setting up the MB-System processing environment: mbpreprocess
- Translate time-based sidescan sonar data into backscatter laid out into a regular array of pixels on the seafloor by projecting onto a topographic model: mbsslayout
- Provide command line access to the MB-System version and to the locations of the levitus database and the OTPS tidal correction software: mbconfig
- Version 5 Programs and Macros:
These are the programs and macros that are used in the version 5
parallel processing
scheme. Those programs that are also relevant to the older serial
processing
scheme are marked with an *.
- General Functions
- List swath data formats supported by MB-System: mbformat*
- Get swath data file information and statistics: mbinfo*
- Produce arbitrary ascii tables from swath data: mblist*
- Copy swath data with optional time/space windowing and format
change: mbcopy*
- Translate groups of swath data files between formats: mbm_copy
- Translate groups of swath data files between formats using parallel processes: mbm_multicopy
- Set MB-System default parameters: mbdefaults*
- List files referenced in a recursive datalist file tree: mbdatalist
- Generate ancillary files used in data management: mbdatalist
- Generate ancillary files used in data management using parallel processes: mbm_multidatalist
- Generate an MB-System datalist file referencing all
identifiable swath files in the specified target directory.: mbm_makedatalist
- Create or modify parameter files used to control mbprocess: mbset
- Apply specified processing tasks to a swath data file: mbprocess
- Apply specified processing tasks to a swath data file using parallel processes: mbm_multiprocess
- Convert between calendar time and unix time: mbtime
- Water Properties Utilities
- Obtain reference water sound velocity profile (SVP): mblevitus*
- Calculate water sound absorption from water properties: mbabsorption
- List CTD data in swath sonar data files: mbctdlist
- Process data from a Seabird SBE53 pressure sensor into a tidal model for
use by mbprocess: mbm_bpr
- Generate a sound velocity profile model from sound speed and depth values in swath files: mbm_makesvp
- Extract water sound velocity profiles
(SVPs) from swath data files: mbsvplist
- Select the best
available sound speed model for each swath file in a survey according to
user specified criteria: mbsvpselect
- Navigation Data Processing
- Interactive navigation editor: mbnavedit
- List navigation from ping records in a swath data file: mblist
- List navigation from navigation records in a swath data file:
mbnavlist
- Create or modify parameter files used to control mbprocess: mbset
- Merge navigation with swath data file (among other tasks): mbprocess
- Adjust navigation to match bathymetric features in
overlapping swathes: mbnavadjust
- Merge two MBnavadjust projects: mbnavadjustmerge
- Merge inertial
and surface tracking navigation for
submerged sonar platforms (e.g. ROVs and AUVs): mbauvnavusbl
- Output a list of the times when a survey passes the waypoints of a planned survey route: mbroutetime
- Patch Test Analyis
- Interactive 3D visualization data cleaning and attitude bias patch test: mbeditviz
- Bathymetry Data Processing
- Automatic bathymetry data cleaning using area based median and standard
deviation filtering: mbareaclean
- Automatic bathymetry data cleaning using slope filtering and/or other
filters: mbclean
- Automatic bathymetry data cleaning using a 3D density filter:
mbvoxelclean
- Interactive bathymetry data cleaning: mbedit
- Interactive 3D visualization data cleaning and attitude bias patch test: mbeditviz
- Extract bathymetry edits in edit save file format: mbgetesf
- Extract bathymetry edits from Simrad Neptune software into
edit save file format: mbneptune2esf
- Obtain reference water sound velocity profile (SVP): mblevitus*
- Interactive modeling of SVP effects on bathymetry: mbvelocitytool*
- Extract water sound velocity profiles
(SVPs) from swath data files: mbsvplist
- Select the best
available sound speed model for each swath file in a survey according to
user specified criteria: mbsvpselect
- Create or modify parameter files used to control mbprocess: mbset
- Recalculate or correct swath bathymetry and apply bathymetry
edits from
mbedit and mbclean: mbprocess
- Obtain histogram of bathymetry data: mbhistogram*
- Automatically grid bathymetry data: mbm_grid*
- Grid bathymetry data: mbgrid*
- Extract subarea of GMT grid file: mbm_grdcut*
- Perform forward and inverse UTM projections of ASCII data
triples: mbm_utm*
- Estimate attitude time lag by cross correlation of apparent
bottom slope with the roll time series: mbrolltimelag
- Sidescan and Amplitude Data Processing
- Obtain grazing angle correction tables from
sidescan/amplitude data for
use by mbprocess: mbbackangle
- Create or modify parameter files used to control mbprocess: mbset
- Correct sidescan/amplitude data using tables generated by
mbbackangle: mbprocess
- Automatically mosaic sidescan/amplitude data: mbm_grid*
- Mosaic sidescan/amplitude data: mbmosaic*
- Grid sidescan/amplitude data: mbgrid*
- Extract subarea of GMT grid file: mbm_grdcut*
- Grid Vizualization
- GMT grid vizualization and survey planning: mbgrdviz*
- Survey planning
- GMT grid vizualization and survey planning: mbgrdviz*
- Translate an mbgrdviz survey route file into an MBARI AUV
mission script: mbm_route2mission*
- Postscript Graphics
- GMT module for swath contouring: mbcontour*
- GMT module for swath color fill plotting: mbswath*
- Macro to generate GMT map of swath data:
mbm_plot*
- Macro to generate GMT map of gridded data: mbm_grdplot*
- Macro to generate GMT perspective view of gridded data: mbm_grd3dplot*
- Macro to generate GMT plot of xy data: mbm_xyplot*
- Macro to generate GMT histogram plot of data: mbm_histplot*
- Exporting Data Products to GIS and Visualization Packages
- Generate GeoTIFF image from GMT grid files: mbgrdtiff*
- Macro to generate GeoTIFF image of gridded data: mbm_grdtiff*
- Convert GMT grid file to ArcView ASCII grid file: mbm_grd2arc*
- Convert ArcView ASCII grid file to GMT grid file: mbm_arc2grd*
- Convert GMT grid file to a set of tiled GeoVRML files: mbm_grd2geovrml*
- GMT module to convert grid file to a OBJ format 3D model file: mbm_grd2geovrml*
- Subbottom profiler (and center beam reflection) data processing
- Extract subbottom profiler data to segy files: mbextractsegy
- Get segy data file information and statistics: mbsegyinfo
- Produce arbitrary ascii tables from segy data files: mbsegylist
- Grid seismic data from segy data files: mbsegygrid
- Generate Power Spectral Density (PSD) estimates from segy data files: mbsegypsd
- Tide modeling and correction
- Generate open ocean tidal model using the Oregon State Ocean Tide Prediction Software (OTPSnc) package: mbotps
- Generate tide files from the height above ellipsoid data in Kongsberg multibeam data files: mbgpstide
- Format-specific processing, extraction, or translation
- Preprocess Reson 7k data (format 88), including applying time
lag and biases to attitude and navigation data: mb7kpreprocess
- Preprocess data from third generation Kongsberg
multibeam sonars (e.g. EM122, EM302, EM710): mbkongsbergpreprocess
- List raw information contained in Hydrosweep DS data files (formats 21 and 24): mbhsdump
- Preprocess HYSWEEP HSX data (format 201), including applying time
lag and biases to attitude and navigation data: mbhysweeppreprocess
- Preprocess SwathPlus SXP data (format 222), including applying time
lag and biases to attitude and navigation data: mbswplspreprocess
- Scan a Hydrosweep swath sonar data file using the program mbhsdump and generate a list in columnar format with time, date, latitude, longitude, C-mean, and C-keel entrys: mbm_fmtvel
- Extract Jstar format (format 132) sidescan and subbottom data
from Reson 7k (format 88) data files: mb7k2jstar
- Extract Edgetech sidescan sonar data from Reson 7k format data, bin and lay the sidescan
onto the seafloor, and output data in the MBF_MBLDEOIH formst (MBIO
format id 71): mb7k2ss
- mbauvloglist: Generate
arbitrary text lists of values from MBARI AUV mission log files.
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