Seafloor Mapping along Continental Shelves Research and Techniques for Visualizing Benthic Environments /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Finkl, Charles W. (Editor), Makowski, Christopher (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Coastal Research Library, 13
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Oceanography.; Coasts.; Geotechnical engineering.; Geographical information systems.; Earth Sciences.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Coastal Sciences.
• Physical Description: XII, 293 p. 206 illus., 146 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319251219
• ISSN: 2211-0577 ;

This university-level reference work covers a range of remote sensing techniques that are useful for mapping and visualizing benthic environments on continental shelves. Chapters focus on overviews of the history and future of seafloor mapping techniques, cartographical visualisation and communication of seafloor mapping, and practical applications of new technologies. Seabed mapping is referenced by high-resolution seismic methods, sidescan sonar, multibeam bathymetry, satellite imagery, LiDAR, acoustic backscatter techniques, and soundscape ecology monitoring, use of autonomous underwater vehicles, among other methods. The wide breadth of subjects in this volume provides diversified coverage of seafloor imaging. This collection of modern seafloor mapping techniques summarizes the state of the art methods for mapping continental shelves.