Certain spacecraft carry altimeter instruments that can infer seafloor topography from the way ... in different parts of the world, good ocean-floor maps are a must. Much of the data that's ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ... year of measurements from NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography ...

Scientists say the topography of the ocean floor is less ... But there was still around 293 million square kilometers of ocean floor to map, he added. The project is a collaboration between ...

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT ... The Seabed 2030 project aims to map the entire ocean floor by the end of the decade using this method. However, the relatively time-consuming ...

The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has built a 3D map of deep ocean waters as they ... denser water running along the ocean floor. Scientists say they can link this behaviour to changing ...