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Real time 3D display of hydrographic data for QA and QC. Roland Arsenault Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping Joint Hydrographic Center University of New Hampshire roland@ccom.unh.edu Figure 1 – Data collected from a Simrad EM1002 in the Gulf of Mexico. The main window shows an overview of recent data collected, while the subwindow shows a close-up view of a diagram representing the ship and its attitude. Abstract A real time gridding system (RTG) is being developed to enable real time quality control during multibeam sonar surveys. RTG displays georeferenced, gridded data as it is collected from the multi-beam sonar. The system is capable of integrating historic data, such as charts, DTMs and sidescan sonar images, while building a surface that grows as the new data is being collected, all in a georeferenced 3D environment. Other data, such as position and attitude of the ship or towed vehicle can also be displayed in real time in order to give the user a full picture of the complete data acquisition process as it is happening. The real time display of geo-referenced sounding data is an invaluable tool for identifying both systematic artifacts and outliers. The technology that enables RTG consists of a dynamically growing surface that is gridded on-the-fly and realtime display using variable resolution to maintain interactivity with the system. A number of display modes have been implemented, including displaying of all soundings, displaying the median surface or shoal-biased surface. Both the derived DTM and the underlying soundings can be displayed simultaneously revealing the relationship between the soundings and the DTM. Introduction In a complex system such as a multibeam sonar survey system, it is very difficult to