There are a number of startups racing to map the ocean in greater detail, but the latest to snag fresh funding is Bedrock ...

Ships using sonar can also map abyssal hills, but it’s a slow and difficult task. To date, ships have only mapped about a quarter of the planet’s ocean floor. SWOT was designed to do much more ...

For decades, humanity has gazed at the stars, dreaming of Mars and the Moon, while a vast and mysterious frontier has remained largely unexplored right here on Earth—the ocean floor. Despite ...

Satellite data, in other words, only gives a rough idea of what lies beneath the sea. Only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor has been ... extending out from its borders beneath the sea.

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. Tucked inside a federal government building in the ...

Researchers have found new methods to make detailed maps of the sea floor. The maps will make it possible to spot and protect sensitive marine habitats, ensure safe navigation for ships and keep ...

as well as give researchers a new tool for mapping the ocean floor. It has also inspired at least one other biologist to review footage collected from other animals. "I think it would complete a ...

The four assistants, along with several others, carried underwater video cameras and dived to parts of the ocean floor off Australia ... Scientists usually map parts of the seabed by using ...

but also expanding on their ability to map the ocean floor. Their unconventional imaging strategy is the topic of a new paper for Frontiers in Marine Science. Australian sea lions, the only ...

the study was a “proof of concept” showing that sea lions can help us map the ocean floor. Angelakis added that such baseline knowledge of seabed habitats and the conditions that influence ...