Perspectives on the Use of Ocean Mapping Data in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Abstract
The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project is a collaborative effort to inspire the complete mapping of the world's ocean by 2030, and to compile all bathymetry into the freely-available GEBCO gridded data set. Seabed 2030 aspires to support scientific research and sustainable use of the oceans based on detailed knowledge of the shape of the seafloor. Achieving this goal is largely dependent on stakeholder engagement and capacity building, and builds on the efforts of many people working to map the seafloor at a variety of scales and across all sectors of the maritime community. The project builds on an investment in capacity building through the Nippon Foundation/GEBCO Training Program that has built a growing global network of alumni working in a variety of fields that acquire and utilize ocean mapping data.
The Seabed 2030 Regional Data Center hosted at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University focuses on coordinating with stakeholders and assembling data products for the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. There are a total of 51 Training Program alumni from 26 countries that border the region and several others who work within the region, forming a critical network of potential data contributors and consumers. This presentation highlights some of the use cases for bathymetry data from the perspective of this diverse network of stakeholders. By revealing common needs across the region, this input can help prioritize future collaborative efforts to map the gaps in bathymetric data coverage and acquire other important complementary data sets.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMOS11A..02M
- Keywords:
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- 3045 Seafloor morphology;
- geology;
- and geophysics;
- MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS;
- 4894 Instruments;
- sensors;
- and techniques;
- OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL;
- 4260 Ocean data assimilation and reanalysis;
- OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL;
- 4262 Ocean observing systems;
- OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL