The most detailed map of the ocean floor ever seen published today this is the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced using satellite imagery to show ridges and trenches of the.
The ocean floor map.
The nippon foundation gebco seabed 2030 project has mapped one fifth of the world s ocean floor.
Very little of the ocean floor has been mapped directly.
It turns out that satellites can see below the sea surface.
So how do we make maps of the global ocean floor.
An international effort to map the entire ocean floor in detail by 2030 is underway using multiple ships led by the nippon foundation and the general bathymetric chart of the oceans.
Data collected by satellites and remote sensing instruments were used to created a model at least twice as.