Sentences with phrase «seabed mapping»

Though frenzied seabed mapping clarifies the geology, economic incentives cloud the discussion

Though frenzied seabed mapping clarifies the geology, economic incentives cloud the discussion

However, a lot more seabed mapping and sampling is required for them to understand the real hazard of tsunamis posed by these landslides, or whether it will happen again.

Not exact matches

Within days of the twin Mir descent, the U.S. Coast Guard had dispatched the icebreaker Healy north of Alaska to spend nearly a month mapping the Arctic Ocean's floor; Canada commenced a 10 - day military exercise called a «sovereignty operation»; and the Danes sent scientists to map the seabed north of Greenland.

Funded and supported by English Heritage, and using advanced underwater imaging techniques, the project led by Professor David Sear of Geography and Environment has produced the most accurate map to date of the town's streets, boundaries and major buildings, and revealed new ruins on the seabed.

Meanwhile the MOLA data suggest that the elliptical northern hemisphere depression, some of the flattest terrain ever mapped, may have been an ancient seabed shaped by vigorous convection of the planet's mantle or tectonic plate recycling during the planet's formative stages.

In addition to a marine biologist's typical tools — water samplers to measure salinity and temperature, plankton nets — the team's toolbox will hold cameras, coring systems to collect seafloor sediment, and hydroacoustic equipment to map the topography of the now - exposed seabed.

Based on its extensive field programme, ECO2 recommends that overburden, seabed, and water column should be monitored with 3 - D seismic techniques, high - resolution bathymetry or backscatter mapping of the seabed, hydro - acoustic imaging of gas accumulations and outlets, video and photo imaging, chemical detection of dissolved CO2 in ambient bottom waters.

The researchers used an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named SeaBED that is armed with upward - looking sonar to map the underside of the sea ice floes.

The production of accurate coral reef models has only been made possible by scientists having access to high resolution multibeam sonar maps of the seabed.

Seabed 2030 aims to map the entirety of the ocean floor by 2030.

Themes: summer's day sea, stormy sea, seabed mysteries, sea monsters and pirate maps.

In 2009 a team of British and American scientists deployed an autonomous robot submarine on six missions beneath the PIG ice shelf using sonar scanners to map the seabed and the ice shelf bottom.

Maps depicting Russia's old and new bids to the Arctic seabed are being misinterpreted to fuel fears about the nation's expansion.

Local developer Nakheel (the sponsor for this four - day press trip) is constructing 300 islands known collectively as «The World,» using sand reclaimed from the seabed and shaped to resemble the global map.