A group of scientists has successfully mapped one-fifth of the world’s ocean floor, a significant milestone for the team on its mission to measure every depth and recess of the planet's seabed by the end of the decade.
, an international group of experts in oceanography that develops and makes bathymetric data sets and ocean terrain maps available and accessible for free. To collect and measure the data, the Seabed 2030 team uses sound waves, an acoustic method it says has been widely used by oceanographers and scientists to map ocean floors over the last century.
, which allows them to transmit large swaths of sound down to the seabed, sometimes up to 10 kilometres wide in deep waters. The project is crowdsourcing its data collection, asking commercial operators and research institutes from around the world to cooperate and share their sonar data so they can speed up the mapping process.
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