List of MB-System Programs:
Manual Page for the MB-System package:
Manual Page for the MB-System i/o library:
These are the current MB-system programs with links to the Unix manual
pages:
- hsdump: Lists contents of the various
sorts of
data records in Hydrosweep DS data.
- mbanglecorrect: Apply a
grazing
angle
correction to beam amplitude or sidescan data.
- mbareaclean: Identifies and
flags
bad beams in swath
sonar bathymetry data within a specified area.
- mbauvloglist: Generate
arbitrary text lists of values from MBARI AUV mission log files.
- mbauvnavusbl: Merge inertial
and surface tracking navigation for
submerged sonar platforms (e.g. ROVs and AUVs).
- mbbackangle: Generates an ".ssc"
or
sidescan correction file by calculating average sidescan amplitudes
versus the seafloor
grazing angle.
- mbbackangleold: Old tool that
generates a table of the average
amplitude or sidescan values as a function of the grazing angle with
the
seafloor.
- mbbath: Recalculates or corrects
swath
bathymetry.
- mbclean: Identifies and flags bad
beams
in swath
sonar bathymetry data.
- mbcleanold: Old tool that
identifies
and
flags bad beams in swath sonar bathymetry data.
- mbcontour: Generate GMT compatible
Postscript
color swath contour plots.
- mbcopy: Copy swath sonar data files.
- mbcut: Removes data from portions of
swath as specified by the user.
- mbdatalist: Parses recursive
datalist
files and outputs the
complete list of data files and formats.
- mbdefaults: Set or list default
mbio
parameters
for reading and writing swath sonar data
- mbedit: Interactive editor used to
flag
bad beams
in swath sonar bathymetry data.
- mbeditold:
Old interactive editor used to
flag bad beams in swath sonar bathymetry data.
- mbextractsegy:
Extract subbottom profiler or center beam reflection data to segy files.
- mbfilter: Apply some simple filter
functions
to sidescan, beam amplitude, or bathymetry data.
- mbformat: List information about
swath
sonar
data formats supported by the MBIO library.
- mbgetesf: Extract bathymetry edits
in
edit
save file format.
- mbgetmask: Extract list of flagged
or
edited
beams from a swath sonar data file.
- mbgrdtiff: Generate TIFF image
from
gridded
data.
- mbgrdviz: Vizualize GMT grids.
- mbgrid: Grid bathymetry, amplitude,
and
sidescan
data from swath sonar data files.
- mbhistogram: Obtain histogram of
bathymetry,
amplitude, or sidescan data from swath sonar data files.
- mbinfo: Output some basic statistics
of
swath
sonar data files.
- mblevitus: Create a water velocity
profile
which is representative of the mean annual water column for a specified
1 degree by 1 degree region.
- mblist: List data in swath sonar data
files.
- mbmask: Apply editing information
obtained from
one file with mbgetmask to another file.
- mbmerge: Merge swath sonar data with
new
navigation.
- mbmosaic: Mosaic sidescan and
amplitude
data.
- mbnavedit: Interactive editor used
to
fix
problems with navigation in swath sonar data files.
- mbnaveditold: Old interactive
editor used
to fix problems with navigation in swath sonar data files.
- mbnavlist: List navigation data in
swath sonar
data files.
- mbneptune2esf: Extract
bathymetry edits from Simrad Neptune software into edit save file
format.
- mbprocess: Process swath sonar
data
files, including
merging navigation, applying bathymetry edits, recalculating
bathymetry by raytracing, and applying a variety of other corrections.
- mbps: Simple perspective views of swath
bathymetry
in Postscript.
- mbrollbias: Evaluate the roll
bias of
a swath
sonar system using two pieces of coincident bathymetry data collected
with
opposing ship headings.
- mbrolltimelag Estimate attitude
time lag by cross correlation of apparent bottom slope with the roll
time series:
- mbsegygrid:
Generate time vs. trace number grids of seismic data from segy files.
- mbsegyinfo:
Output some basic statistics of segy seismic data files.
- mbsegylist:
List selected header values in segy seismic data files.
- mbset:
Create and modify parameter files used
to control mbprocess.
- mbsimradmakess: Regenerate
sidescan imagery
from the raw amplitude samples contained in data from Simrad EM300 and
EM3000 sonars.
- mbsmooth: Smooth swath bathymetry
using
a spatial
domain Gaussian filter.
- mbstripnan: Filter to remove NaN
nodes.
- mbsvplist: Extract water sound
velocity profiles
(SVPs) from swath data files.
- mbswath: Generate GMT compatible
Postscript
color and color shaded relief swath plots.
- mbtide: Corrects swath sonar
bathymetry
for tide
data.
- mbunclean: Unflags edited beams in
swath sonar
bathymetry data.
- mbvelocitytool: Interactive
program for
modeling the affect of the water velocity profile on swath sonar
bathymetry
calculations.
- mb7k2jstar: Extract Jstar format
(format 132) sidescan and subbottom data from Reson 7k (format 88) data
files.
- mb7kpreprocess: Preprocess
Reson 7k data (format 88), including applying time lag and biases to
attitude and navigation data.
Macros are programs or shellscripts which make use of programs from the
MB-System and other software packages to accomplish common tasks
easily.
These are the current MB-System macros:
- mbm_arc2grd: Convert an ArcView
ASCII grid
file to a GMT grid file.
- mbm_copy: Translate groups of swath
data files between formats
- mbm_fmtvel: Scans a Hydrosweep DS
data file
and outputs a formatted table of the mean water velocity and surface
water
velocity values used in processing that data.
- mbm_dslnavfix: Reads a WHOI
DSL
AMS-120
processed navigation file containing UTM northings and eastings and
outputs
a navigation file containing longitude and latitude which is suitable
for
use with mbmerge.
- mbm_grd2geovrml: Create and
execute commands which generate a TerraVision tileset and GeoVRML set
of files that can be combined with other data and viewed in a web
browser.
- mbm_grdcut: Extract a subarea of
a
GMT grid
file.
- mbm_grdplot: Reads a GMT GRD
grid
file and
writes a shellscript which will generate a GMT map of the data.
- mbm_grdtiff: Reads a GMT GRD
grid
file and
writes a shellscript which will generate a TIFF image of the data.
- mbm_grd3dplot: Reads a GMT GRD
grid file
and writes a shellscript which will generate a GMT 3D perspective view
of the data.
- mbm_grd2arc: Convert a GMT grid
file
to
an ArcView ASCII grid file.
- mbm_histplot: Create an executable
shellscript which will generate a GMT histogram plot of a dataset.
- mbm_grid: Reads a swath sonar data
file and writes a shellscript which will grid bathymetry data or mosaic
sidescan (or amplitude) data using reasonable guesses at the appropriate
grid bounds and bin size.
- mbm_makedatalist: Generates
an MB-System datalist file referencing all identifiable swath files in
the specified target directory.
- mbm_plot: Reads a swath sonar data
file
and
writes a shellscript which will generate a swath and/or contour plot of
the data.
- mbm_rollerror: Reads a swath
sonar
data
file, calculates the noise in the vertical reference used by the sonar,
and generates a file containing roll corrections which can be applied
to
the data.
- mbm_route2mission:
Translate an mbgrdviz survey route file into an MBARI AUV mission
script.
- mbm_stat: Runs mbinfo on a swath
sonar
data
file and extracts beam statistics from the output of mbinfo.
- mbm_utm: Performs forward and
inverse
UTM projections
of ASCII data triples.
- mbm_vrefcheck: Generates a
plot of
high
pass filtered apparent crosstrack seafloor slope.
- mbm_xbt: Processes a Sparton XBT
data
file and
outputs a sound velocity profile file which can be used to process
swath
sonar data.
- mbm_xyplot: Reads one or more xy
data
files
and writes a shellscript which will generate GMT plot of the data.
Last Updated: $Date: 2006/11/26 09:38:13 $ $Revision: 5.18 $
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