DEW 1/12/2006 Ship motion data are the roll, pitch, yaw and other ship location information. The shipboard network and computer systems aboard the Ron Brown is one of its greatest assets. Nearly all of the ship's scientific devices are integrated into an on board oceanographic system called the Scientific Computing System (SCS). The SCS is a network that collects, stores, processes and retrieves oceanographic data from all the navigation and environmental sensors, bathymetric sonar systems, and other mission sensors. The data are distributed to the scientists after the cruise by the survey tech on CD. Specific data types have to be requested before the experiment begins.