"The purpose of this report is to briefly describe the data acquisition and processing for EX1004 Leg 3 data, without going into a very detailed description of the multibeam and ancillary sensor setup. For details about setup of the various equipment/sensors, please refer appendix D and the ship's readiness report, which can be obtained by contacting the ships operations officer (ops.explorer@noaa.gov). Also, please note that this report covers only the EM302 multibeam mapping activities conducted during this cruise. Considerable other activities including Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) dives, Conductivity Temperature Depth (CTD) casts and education and outreach activities, were conducted which may be referred to in this report"--Report purpose. [doi:10.7289/V5/MDR-OER-EX1004L3 (http://doi.org/10.7289/V5/MDR-OER-EX1004L3)]

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