Very little of the ocean floor has been mapped directly.
The ocean floor map.
The nippon foundation gebco seabed 2030 project has mapped one fifth of the world s ocean floor.
With careful processing small differences in sea surface heights and gravity can reveal detailed maps of the seafloor.
It turns out that satellites can see below the sea surface.
The most detailed map of the ocean floor ever seen published today this is the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced using satellite imagery to show ridges and trenches of the.
Researchers today published the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced.
An international effort to map the entire ocean floor in detail by 2030 is underway using multiple ships led by the nippon foundation and the general bathymetric chart of the oceans.