Required Information

As detailed in the Survey Metadata Product Specification and:

Directory Conventions

\[SurveyName_ID] – supplied as per Survey Metadata Specifications

--\SurveyDocs – supplied as per Survey Metadata Specifications

--\L0_RawData

--\Docs

--\Processed folder (On board processing, if available)

Within \Docs:

• Additional Metadata describing the Raw L0 data (see L0 MBES Metadata Attributes)

• Quality Assurance Report (QAX) performed over the Raw data

• Patch test report for the Multibeam instrument or Currency Statement

• Shapefiles

Please supply all reports in Adobe PDF format. A Report of Survey template can be found at AusSeabed Record Templates

The Surveys report will include a list of the equipment along with software used and version; how the echo sounder transducer was set up and levelled, what vertical reference was used and how depths were reduced to adopted datum. A Levelling diagram is a useful method of confirming that datum adjustments have been carried out correctly.

Within \L0_RawData:

• Raw MBES Sensor data

• Raw Backscatter

• Ancillary Navigation data in POSMV or other proprietary format of any aux sensor used e.g TerraPos or Starfix

• Ancillary Tide data

• Raw Sub Bottom Profiler (SBP) data

• Raw Conductivity, Temperature or Depth (CTD/XBT) data or Magnetic or Meteorological data

• Raw Water Column data (WCD) – optional

• On board processing GSFs if available