2014 Falkor Fall Quality Assessment Report

Vessel: R/V Falkor Multibeam System: EM710/EM302 Dates: September 22-24, 2014 The R/V Atlantis replaced its EM122 multibeam echosounder with an EM124 upgrade during the 2020-21 mThe EM302 and EM710 multibeams were successfully calibrated and verified for use with both the loaner Seapath MRU and the new POS MV.

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2014 Healy Acoustic Test Report

Vessel: USCGC Healy Multibeam System: EM122 Dates: August 13-24, 2014 Gates Acoustic Services was tasked by SCRIPPS Institute of Oceanography to investigate and quantify acoustic issues associated with operation of the USCGC HEALY (WAGBG20).

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2014 QAT Review of R2R MBQA Tests

Overview The Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) Program has developed programmatic quality assessment (QA) routines intended to identify suspicious data that may indicate sensor and/or operational problems.

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2013 Falkor Multibeam Echosounder System Review

Vessel: R/V Falkor Multibeam System: EM710/EM302 Dates: April 2, 2012 The transducer impedances are similar to baseline measurements with exception of the EM710 transducer impedances.

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2013 NOAA Ship Rainier Multibeam System Review

Vessel: Rainier Multibeam System: EM710 Dates: June 2013 Sensor geometry reconfiguration was successfully completed and tested on Rainier and a 14 ms orientation time delay was applied in SIS to accommodate an observed latency in the transmission of motion data from the POSMV to SIS.

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2013 Roger Revelle Quality Assurance Report

Cruise ID: RR1301 Multibeam System: EM124/Seapath 380 Dates: January 21-23, 2013 The accuracy (repeatability, strictly speaking) analysis indicates that the system is performing within expected levels.

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2012 Kilo Moana Quality Assurance Report

Cruise ID: KM1204 Multibeam System: EM122/EM710 Dates: March 13-22, 2012 The point of the QAT visit was to help the host institution in developing protocols and practices that are conducive to the acquisition of high quality multibeam data.

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2012 Falkor Multibeam Echosounder System Review

Vessel: R/V Falkor Multibeam System: EM302/EM710 Dates: May 2012 RV Falkor is equipped with Kongsberg Maritime (KM) EM302 and EM710 multibeam echosounders (MBES).

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Cookbook: SIS Software Install

SIS Software InstallDownload Powerpoint: SIS Software InstallDownload

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Introduction to Patch Tests

Basic overview of how and why to conduct a patch test.

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