Accurate seafloor maps are also important for an improved ... Now they're focusing on refining their picture of the ocean floor by calculating the depth of the features they see.

For the deeper seas and ocean, Vescovo has a bold new proposal. Where the water is too deep for light to penetrate, but it is still in an area near enough to the coast, with a depth between 30 and ...

It was the first time anyone spied a worldwide picture of what lay beneath the ocean in such detail ... By the late 1960s, and several sonar-based seafloor maps later, earth scientists had ...

Improved maps of the seafloor are essential to safe navigation, protecting the marine environment and helping us understand Earth’s climate and geological history. Features of the ocean floor ...

Languages: English, Spanish Satellite data has enabled researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop a new way to measure ocean ... seafloor, which can provide an indication of water ...

They’d also gather information on the water’s depth, salinity ... injured because the Navy’s maps were inaccurate. Much of our understanding of the ocean floor comes from imperfect data ...

Saildrone and Meta successfully complete a 4,500 km deep-ocean cable route survey using an uncrewed surface vehicle.

Life at the bottom of the ocean is extreme ... scientists can get a specific depth. Scanning a whole area of the seafloor, then, will give you a depth — or bathymetry — map.

Meanwhile, charting the ocean floor has presented its own daunting challenges. The intense water pressure found deep in the abyss can crush most equipment, and the seafloor is essentially hidden ...

In fact, the area of the deep seafloor that's been directly visualized is roughly equivalent to the state of Rhode Island, researchers report in the journal Science Advances. Maps created with ...

More accurate maps of the ocean floor are crucial for a range of seafaring activities, including navigation and laying underwater communications cables. “Seafloor mapping is key in both ...