With careful processing small differences in sea surface heights and gravity can reveal detailed maps of the seafloor.
The ocean floor map.
An international effort to map the entire ocean floor in detail by 2030 is underway using multiple ships led by the nippon foundation and the general bathymetric chart of the oceans.
The most detailed map of the ocean floor ever seen published today this is the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced using satellite imagery to show ridges and trenches of the.
The results that let this new marvelously detailed map of the seafloor from nasa s earth observatory be made were actually first published last year as part of a paper in science from researchers.
Data collected by satellites and remote sensing instruments were used to created a model at least twice as.
Very little of the ocean floor has been mapped directly.
The nippon foundation gebco seabed 2030 project has mapped one fifth of the world s ocean floor.