Re: Extracting central beam from ASCII XYZ bathymetry

Karen Marks <[email protected]>
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Juan,

Sometimes the provider of multibeam data will also make available in a 
separate file the center navigation points.  An example is JAMSTEC, that 
provides ascii xyz MB data as well as navigation files.  One may grid the ascii 
xyz MB data onto a fine mesh grid, and then use grdtrack with the navigation 
lon, lat points to extract MB values from the grid at those points.  If there are no 
navigation data, then you may try "creating" a central track with routine fitcircle, 
followed by grdtrack to extract MB depths along the created track.

Simple instructions to grid ascii xyz MB data are available in the free IHO-IOC 
GEBCO Cook Book, see chapter 8.2.1:

http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gebco_cook_book/

Hope this helps.

Karen Marks
NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry

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