Anglo-German bathymetry agreement
UK-based MarineFind and EOMAP of Seefeld, Germany have established a partnership to provide easy access to coastal high-resolution and global bathymetry using new methods for distributing data for pre-processed areas while permitting production of cost-effective custom datasets. Advances in processing of satellite imagery, they say, means that low-cost, accurate, high-resolution bathymetry at depths of 20m is now available worldwide.
The two companies have already worked on several projects, including recent characterisation of shallow coastal sectors in the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea. In areas of interest, satellite imagery showed shallow bathymetric features that were either inaccessible to survey vessels or beyond the remit of original surveys.
By David Goodfellow
