Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean maps yet.

“Seafloor mapping is key in both established and emerging economic opportunities, including rare-mineral seabed mining, optimizing shipping routes, hazard detection, and seabed warfare ...

Surveying and mapping are providing insights into some of the underwater risks facing New Zealand from landslides and ...

For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a groundbreaking new ...

Located off the coast of Ecuador, Paramount seamount is among the kinds of ocean floor features that certain ocean-observing ...

Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by ocean. If we were to make an elevation average of the Earth’s surface, we’d be 2,000 meters (almost 6,600 feet) below the sea. This vast expanse ...

phytobiology; bio-optics; remote sensing; biogeochemistry; bioluminescence; trophic interactions; impact of ocean physics on abundance and distribution of organisms; sensor development; autonomous ...

Saildrone has launched two ten metre Voyager USVs as part of the Florida Seafloor Mapping Initiative (FSMI), a multiyear ...