By David Finlayson, Chief Scientist Multibeam echo sounder (MBES) imagery has improved dramatically in recent years and each new version of SonarWiz has introduced improved tooling for working with these data. Most of SonarWiz’s image processing and targeting tools are now also available for MBES systems. In this article we will take a look at the two different approaches offered by SonarWiz for processing MBES image data. A MBES image differs from traditional sidescan (see Figure 1). Each beam in a MBES is roughly equivalent to a complete side scan channel. To create an MBES image, the portion of the …