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This is NOAA’s Plan for Deep Ocean Mapping of US Waters

NOAA is using a systematic approach to map all US waters in support of Seabed 2030 objectives and to contribute to the complete mapping of the world’s oceans in the next ten years. Mapping within US waters is a national goal that will only be accomplished through stron... (read more)

“Tharp Helped Keep Me Going”

"It wasn’t always easy being a black woman in my early days as an oceanographer,” says Dawn Wright, chief scientist at a worldwide operating company specialized in mapping and spatial analytics software. But a fictional pirate and a pioneering ocean explorer help... (read more)

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Features

Scientific Challenges in a Crucial Region for Planet Earth

Research Expedition to Map Scottish Seabed

Hydrographic Education During a Lockdown

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This Is How Airborne Multibeam Lidar Coastal Mapping in Paradise Is Done

The Rapid Airborne Multibeam Mapping System, RAMMS, was developed over a period of three years before it was officially launched in the summer of 2018. Senior hydrographer Richard Goosen describes how Fugro used the system for coastal and nearshore mapping at the paradisal T... (read more)

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Darren Wilkinson

Darren Wilkinson is employed by Land Surveys in Business Development for Geospatial Services and has been in the geospatial industry for 32 years. He holds qualifications in Cartography, Photogrammetry and Business. (read more)

Shepard Smith

Rear Adm. Shepard M. Smith is director of NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey and the US national representative to the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO). In 2017, he was elected as the chair of the IHO Council. (read more)

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