Massive seafloor craters off California are shaped by ancient underwater sediment flows—not methane—revealing a hidden ...

Alicella gigantea, a rarely sighted giant crustacean that inhabits the depths of the ocean and can reach up to 34 cm in ...

Scientists believe that the Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano located 300 miles off the coast of Oregon, is showing signs of a potential eruption ...

FN Media Group News Commentary - LIDAR is being used in more industries across all markets and in many environments… one of which is water. People have studied the underwater depth of river, sea, and ...

Abstract: Full-waveform airborne LiDAR bathymetry (ALB), which provides waveforms and point clouds, has become an essential technology for shallow water surveys. However, weak seafloor echoes are ...

A satellite-mounted instrument has in just one year produced higher-resolution imagery of the global seafloor than that from comparable systems over the past 30 years. At present, ship-mounted ...

Traditionally, bathymetric mapping has tended to involve ... of sunlight penetrating the water and reflecting off the seafloor, which can provide an indication of water depth in sufficiently ...

A "community" has been uncovered in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Researchers have found a thriving ecosystem of animal life in an unlikely place: beneath hydrothermal vents under the seafloor ...