A bathymetric map is one concerning the floor or bottom of a body of water. It’s the wet equivalent of a topographical map. Combine this with humanity’s inherent taste in seaside real estate ...

Traditionally, bathymetric mapping has tended to involve ship-based sonar and aircraft-based LiDAR surveys—both of which are costly and labor-intensive. But for decades researchers have also ...

That number now stands at 19%, up from 15% in just the last year. Some 14.5 million sq km of new bathymetric (depth) data was included in the GEBCO grid in 2019 - an area equivalent to almost ...