The following cruises include Reference Surface Surveys: http://www.rvdata.us/catalog/KM0201 (Atlantic) http://www.rvdata.us/catalog/KM1001 (Pacific) http://www.rvdata.us/catalog/AT18-06 (Pacific) http://www.rvdata.us/catalog/RR1301 (Pacific)

Reference Surfaces produced by the MAC can be downloaded from the Marine Geoscience Data System.

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

Swath coverage performance can be evaluated by extracting the outermost port and starboard soundings to compute swath width from data acquired in a variety of water depths.

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.