The datum was set to WGS84 and the Direct Mercator on 48S was chosen for navigation and display, and data acquisition. The time zone was set to the UTC for the whole data acquisition process. The NAVPRO sofwtare was instead set to the UTM 35 for MCS operations.
The positioning maps and bathymetric images were done with GMT [Wessel and Smith (1995)].
Bathymetric data were complemented by the GEBCO data and previous cruises data.
The computing center used three INTEL based PC running the SUSE GNU-Linux and the Microsoft Windows 2000 O.S., and two SUN workstations running Solaris 8, in addition to some portable computer for data acquisition and efficient data processing.
The Linux machines were used as data repositories using the SAMBA software. A WWW server on a Linux machine was used to share ongoing information and results.
Backups were loaded on DAT tapes, DVD and CD-ROM, and shared among the participants.
Photographs were taken by digital video and cameras, and no copyright was given on the published materials.