Google Earth Ocean Floor Lines

Recently many of these tools have been updated to provide detailed seafloor mapping data or bathymetry.

Google earth ocean floor lines.

Weirdness on the ocean floor. This week google updated. Wednesday 28th january 2009 by james turnbull. Adding street view and a 3d view to a google earth project.

Adding a photo to a place. Google earth released a new feature on june 8 2011 world oceans day that shows five percent of the ocean s floors with a resolution of about 100 meters 109 yards. All those straight lines with identical patterns that you see crisscrossing the ocean floor in google maps or google earth are fake. The only true things are the huge general shapes of the continental shelves and the giant undersea mountain ranges.

Explore the ocean seafloor with columbia university s lamont doherty earth observatory global multi resolution topography gmrt synthesis covering half of a. There s some odd sightings on the ocean floor thanks to the much improved ocean surface depth images that were added to google earth and maps last week. Learn how to create your own. The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean.

With the advent of online mapping tools such as google earth exploring our planet is easier than ever before. This map was created by a user. Viewing your story as a presentation and sharing it with a. The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left.