NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF IMAGER DATA OF MULTIBEAM ECHOSOUNDERS

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General
Data holding centre	Ifremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea
Country	France
Project	OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA CENTER(CDO)
Time period	1990 -->
Ongoing	Yes
Geographical area	Couverture mondiale - World wide coverage
Observations
Parameters	Seismic reflection
Instruments	Multi-beam echosounders
Description
Summary	French national archives of acoustic imagery of the seafloor : reflectivity measurements of the multibeam echosounders of the French Research Vessels
Originators	Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Geophysics Department CEA, Climate and Environmental Sciences Laboratory CNRS, COM, Physical and Biogeochemical Oceanography Laboratory (Luminy) CNRS, Institut de Geodynamique (Sophia Antipolis) CNRS, Laboratory Of Sciences Of Marine Environment CSIC, Institute of Marine Sciences Direction de l'Industrie, des Mines et de l'Energie EPOC, Geology and Oceanography Department European Research and Teaching Centre for Environmental Geosciences Free University Amsterdam French Geological Survey (BRGM) French Petroleum Institute New Energies (Rueil-Malmaison) Fugro France SA GENAVIR Brest Geo-Ocean Laboratory, UMR 6538 Geosciences Montpellier Hydrographic and oceanographic service of the French navy IFREMER, Laboratory of coastal Benthic Ecology IRD, Centre de Noumea IRD, Centre de Bretagne IRD, Centre of Abidjan IRD, Centre of Caracas Ifremer Head Office Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne Ifremer, Centre de Méditerranée Ifremer, Deep Environment Laboratory Ifremer, Deep Sea Environment Department Ifremer, Ecology and Models for the Fishing Industry Ifremer, GENAVIR (La Seyne sur Mer) Ifremer, Marine Geosciences Ifremer, TSI/AS, Acoustic Seismic Ifremer, Technologicals Research and Development Institute of Earth Physics of Paris Laboratory of Oceanography and Climate, Experiments and numerical Approaches Laboratory of Oceanography of Villefranche Laboratory of Phyical Oceanography, CNRS-IFREMER-IRD-UBO Roscoff Marine Station, Sorbonne Université and CNRS The Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel UNKNOWN Universite de Bretagne-Sud, Geosciences, LAUBS Universite de Cergy-Pontoise, Laboratoire de Tectonique Universite de Corse, CEVAREN Universite de Montpellier II, Laboratoire de Geophysique et Tectonique Universite de Nantes, Laboratoire de Petrologie Structurale Universite de Paris VI, Geosciences Azur, Site de Villefranche, OOV Universite de Paris VI, Laboratoire de Tectonique University of Algarve, Aquatic Resources Science and Technology Unit University of Bremen, Department of Tracer-Oceanography University of Perpignan, CEFREM University of Perpignan, Institut Of Modelisation and Analysis In Marine Geo-Environment University of Rouen Normandy, M2C - Continental and Coastal Morphodynamics - UMR 6143 University of Strasbourg I (Louis Pasteur), Earth Sciences School and Observatory Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences
References	RUE A., EDY C. (1992) "Les formats des fichiers" in "Informatique embarquee de l'ATALANTE" V1.0 15/01/1992 IFREMER/DITI/GEN-ATALANTE/AR/CE/92-005, 1992; LE GAL L., EDY C. (1997) CARAIBES : an integrated software for multibeam echosounde and sidescan sonar data mapping, IEE Oceans 97, 6-9 0ct. 1997, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1997; Augustin J.M., Le Suavé R., Lurton X., Voisset M., Dugelay S., Satra C. (1996) Contribution of the multibeam acoustic imagery to the exploration of the sea-bottom., Marine Geophysical Researches, 1996, 18,459-486; Augustin J.M., Edy C., Savoye B., Le Drezen E. (1994) Sonar mosaic computation from multibeam echosounder., Oceans¿94, 1994, Vol 2,433-438
Data web site	http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/
Availability
Organisation	Ifremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea
Availability	By negotiation
Contact	MOUSSAT Eric
Address	Ifremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea IFREMER Centre de Bretagne ZI Pointe du diable CS 10070 PLOUZANE 29280 France
Telephone	+33(0)2 98.22.42.05
Facsimile	+33 (0)2 98.22.46.44
Email	eric.moussat@ifremer.fr
Administration
Collating centre	Ifremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea
Local identifier	IMAG01
Global identifier	4677
Last revised	2011-01-13

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