Current State of Deep Ocean Bathymetric Exploration

Deep Ocean Bathymetric Imaging with GLORI-B

This paper describes the bathymetric imaging and pro cessing of the GLORI B system GLORI B is a deep ocean sidescan sonar surveying device which is able to produce bathymetry measurements and images of the sea oor in swaths of up to km wide The basics of the GLORI B system are described and then the vari ous stages of processing the received data to transform it into a geographically registered...

Bathymetric Techniques and Indian Ocean Applications

Exploration of deep intraterrestrial microbial life: current perspectives.

Intraterrestrial life has been found at depths of several thousand metres in deep sub-sea floor sediments and in the basement crust beneath the sediments. It has also been found at up to 2800-m depth in continental sedimentary rocks, 5300-m depth in igneous rock aquifers and in fluid inclusions in ancient salt deposits from salt mines. The biomass of these intraterrestrial organisms may be equa...

Accelerating ocean exploration.

COVER Young whooping cranes (Grus americana) follow an ultralight aircraft. Each year, endangered whooping cranes are reared in captivity and artifi cially trained by ultralight aircraft on their fi rst lifetime migration from Wisconsin to Florida. Analyses of data from subsequent unaided migration events show that migratory performance improves over many years and that social learning from old...

Improving bathymetric images exploration: A data mining approach

Bathymetry is the science of measuring and charting the depths to determine the topography of the seafloor and other bodies of water. It has several important practical and academic applications. For this reason, having computational tools capable of analyzing bathymetric charts would be useful for domain experts studying the various problems related to water depth. Data mining is a well known ...