Bing Maps just got a large update that brings a more detailed map of the ocean floor to Microsoft's mapping service. This new bathymetry data is based on the data compiled by the Scripps Institute ...

An ultra-detailed map of the ocean floor uses gravity-based data collected by satellite. NASA and CNES launched the satellite to survey Earth’s surface water.

Scientists are mapping the entire ocean floor as part of an ambitious project that could finally find the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. They will use state-of-the-art technology to explo… ...

Well, it turns out, for most of the planet’s surface — the ocean floor, that is — we don’t have very good maps. Researchers announced Friday that they’ve completed a map for just over ...

A team of ocean scientists from 14 nations has won the $7M Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. The group, known as GEBCO-Nippon Foundation Alumni, created the SeaKIT (above), a low-cost uncrewed surface ...

McNeil’s map showed a bioherm network covering over 2,300 square miles, triple the original area estimate. And it wasn’t just the extent of the bioherms that was a surprise: it was their shapes.

Ocean experts call for international action to generate ... Nasa-style mission needed to map ocean floor. Published. 17 June ... Our ignorance of the seafloor came into sharp relief with the loss ...

Typically, finely-wrought ocean maps have been the result of extensive sonar. This is expensive and time-consuming, so sonar maps are mostly only made of places where ships spend the most time.

New map based on untapped streams of satellite data, radar is twice as accurate as version produced 20 years ago, holds data that's key for science, industry, military ...

Many maps of the ocean floor are decades old. The race is on to properly chart them by 2030 – and crowdsourcing could be part of the answer.

Seabed 2030 hopes to map 100 percent of the ocean floor by 2030, which researchers say will be possible thanks to advances in technology and corralling already available data.

The bottom of the ocean is dark, mysterious, and vast—nearly all of it unmapped. Today, however, scientists reveal the clearest map of the ocean floor ever.They didn’t explore the ocean floor.