As a start, we want to demonstrate the how to use MB-System to survey a data set, without any special processing. This chapter might by skipped by more experienced users, but it is a good place to start for those new to sonar data processing and MB-System.
The standard MB-System distribution comes with an archive of example data sets and scripts generated using MB-System (MB-SystemExamples.X.Y.Z.tar.Z). When uncompressed and un-archived, the resulting directory tree will resemble the lines below.
[vschmidt@val-LDEO mbexamples]$ ls data mbbath mbgrid mbinfo mblist mbm_plot README xbt
The ~/data directory contains several sample data files used in some of the examples in this chapter an the next. The other directories contain scripts that demonstrate the use of several of the tools in MB-System .
For the purposes of the MB-Cookbook examples, a directory called ~/mbexamples/cookbook_examples has been created. While some of the data sets provided in the mbexamples archive will be used in these illustrations, other data sets have been chosen to augment them. These data sets have been placed in ~/mbexamples/cookcook_examples/other_data_sets.