NOAA Releases New Views of Earth's Ocean Floor

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @04:43AM from the down-where-it's-wetter dept.

fishmike writes "NOAA has made sea floor maps and other data on the world's coasts, continental shelves and deep ocean available for easy viewing online. Anyone with Internet access can now explore undersea features and obtain detailed depictions of the sea floor and coasts, including deep canyons, ripples, landslides and likely fish habitat. The new online data viewer compiles sea floor data from the near shore to the deep blue, including the latest high-resolution bathymetric (sea bottom) data collected by NOAA's Office of Coast Survey primarily to support nautical charting."

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Google Maps for the Oceans? by dryriver · 2012-04-17 04:57 · Score: 5, Informative

It seems to work much the same way Google Maps/Earth, except that you can dial in different data overlays like : Fishmaps, Geological maps, Hazards (Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Volcanoes). Quite neat. And probably very useful if you are a scientist/academic studying this kind of data.

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Are you sure? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-04-17 05:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Can we really trust liberal big government scientists to give us an unbiased view of the ocean floor? I just think we should wait until all the facts are in before we take their word for it.