Scientists Mapping The Sea Floor Find The Most

Scientists are mapping the entire ocean floor as part of an ambitious project that could finally find the missing malaysian airlines flight mh370.

Scientists mapping the sea floor find the most. Scientists use cameras and sonar near the u s. They will use state of the art technology to explo. Seafloor mapping also called seabed imaging is the measurement of water depth of a given body of water bathymetric measurements are conducted with various methods from sonar and lidar techniques to buoys and satellite altimetry various methods have advantages and disadvantages and the specific method used depends upon the scale of the area under study financial means desired measurement. With nearly 3 430 square kilometers 1 324 square miles mapped since 2004 scientists from the national centers for coastal ocean science and their partners continue exploring the waters surrounding puerto rico and the u s.

By the 1920s the coast and geodetic survey an ancestor of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration s national ocean service was using sonar to map deep water. The first modern breakthrough in sea floor mapping came with the use of underwater sound projectors called sonar which was first used in world war i. Virgin islands to see the sea floor and find out how fish and other sea life use the underwater habitats which include coral reefs and sea grasses.