Undersea maps reveal GBR in unprecedented detail
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- Thursday, 18 January 2018
High-resolution seafloor maps released today show 1.5 million square kilometres of Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef in unprecedented detail.
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Map the Gaps, a GEBCO Symposium on Bathymetry
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- Friday, 17 November 2017
This week was the very successful Map the Gaps, a GEBCO Symposium on Bathymetry, held in Busan, South Korea. The symposium theme was "The world’s oceans are being mapped, one sounding at a time. Join us and hear from technologists, innovators, researchers and makers about mapping the last frontier: our oceans".
Mapping the Great Barrier Reef with cameras, drones and NASA tech
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- Friday, 20 October 2017
New and old technologies reveal what's killing Australia's great marine wonder.
Navy's SeaBat T50-R multibeam sea trial
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- Monday, 16 October 2017
The Royal Australian Navy's Hydrographic Ships Leeuwin and Melville are based in Cairns, North Queensland. These 71 m long ships enable the Australian Hydrographic Service to collect high-quality bathymetry data within Australia's regional seas. I was invited onboard HMAS Leeuwin to observe the new RESON SeaBat T50-R multibeam sea trial.
JCU Brighter - Charting the unknown
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- Friday, 09 June 2017
Explorers no longer take to the skies or travel to distant lands to discover the unknown, instead they look to the depths of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Marine Park. While we can see almost every corner of the globe thanks to Google Earth, beneath the ocean’s surface is an uncharted wonderland of canyons, cliffs and fascinating creatures.
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