SOFIA/FORCAST Galactic Center Legacy Survey: Overview
  The Galactic Center contains some of the most extreme conditions for star
formation in our Galaxy as well as many other phenomena that are unique to this
region. Given our relative proximity to the Galactic Center, we are able to
study details of physical processes to a level that is simply not yet possible
for more distant galaxies, yielding an otherwise inaccessible view of the
nuclear region of a galaxy. We recently carried out a targeted imaging survey
of mid-infrared bright portions of the Galactic Center at 25 and 37 $\mu$m
using the FORCAST instrument on SOFIA. This survey was one of the inaugural
Legacy Programs from SOFIA cycle 7, observing a total area of 403 arcmin$^2$
(2180 pc$^2$), including the Sgr A, B, and C complexes. Here we present an
overview of the survey strategy, observations, and data reduction as an
accompaniment to the initial public release of the survey data. We discuss
interesting regions and features within the data including extended features
near the circumnuclear disk, structures in the Arched Filaments and Sickle H II
regions, and signs of embedded star formation in Sgr B2 and Sgr C. We also
feature a handful of less well studied mid-infrared sources located between Sgr
A and Sgr C that could be sites of relatively isolated star formation activity.
Last, we discuss plans for subsequent publications and future data releases
from the survey.
