Marine Science Faculty Publications

Field Tests of Seasat Bathymetric Detections

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1984

Keywords

Field Test, Southern Hemisphere, Equatorial Region, Present Knowledge, Offshore Engineer

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00305411

Abstract

Knowledge of the locations and sizes of seamounts is of great importance in applications such as inertial navigation and ocean mining. The quality and density of bathymetry data in the equatorial regions and the southern hemisphere are, unifortunately, highly variable. Our present knowledge of bathymetry, and in particular of seamount locations and characteristics, is based upon ship surveys, which are both time-consuming and expensive. It is likely that a significant number of uncharted seamounts exist throughout the oceans, and remote-sensing techniques may be the most effective means of locating them.

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

Marine Geophysical Researches, v. 7, p. 69-71

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