A new tool for investigating seafloor processes in the coastal zone and on the continental shelf. Cartoon of a multibeam system showing how the echo-sounding beams are formed by a combination of transmit and receive beam patterns. Contour interval is 1 meter, with labels at 5 m intervals. Bathymetry of the study area illuminated from the northwest. The multibeam data was collected along east-west tracks, and there are sometimes small areas with no data between the swaths.
White areas have no multibeam data.