Blues correspond to water depth (deeper is purple ... sea-levels will rise in different parts of the world, good ocean-floor maps are a must. Much of the data that's been imported into the ...

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

Plans to map the entire ocean floor by 2030 are going ahead despite ... Mercury or Venus and that charting the depth and shape of the seabed will help understand the impact oceans have on the ...

Satellite data has enabled researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop a new way to measure ocean depth. The technique, which uses imagery captured by the Landsat program, works ...

This aims to have Earth's ocean floor fully mapped to a high standard ... high-resolution (5m or better) bathymetric (depth) map; and take multiple pictures of the seabed. The GEBCO-NF Alumni ...

Off the coast of Chile and Peru, along the entire western length of South America, the seafloor takes a sharp, steep plunge deep into the Pacific Ocean. Known as the Chile margin, the region is ...