Mapping The Oceans – Much More Discovery Yet To Be Done

Ashutosh Viramgama

6 years ago

Oceans Discovery Until Now

We have discovered forests, desert, arctic, even the moon. But in one place remains still mostly unsolicited secret Our ocean covers approximately 70% of the surface of the Earth, but we know more about the geography of Mars about the lie which we lie down under the sea. But whatever can change. Worldwide, people are finally thinking of revealing the mysteries of our deep oceans for both scientific and economic benefits. So, how close are we to mapping the sea completely? For thousands of years, people have taken to the sea with the goal of finding out how deep our oceans are. There was a primarily involving weight lifting and throwing of the boat for a long rope. How did we actually discover the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench? Since then, we have clearly developed with our technology, and in fact, have already used satellites to map the whole ocean. One kind The way they do satellite mapping of the ocean, they use altimetry. Since the satellite is passing in orbit, if the rock, or cemeteries, or whatever under the surface of the ocean, then increasing gravity actually causes some parts of the water to be gathered and they can measure differently.

Oceans Analysis & Reports

Using some algorithms and processing that data, they can actually get a decent representation of looking like there. But decent is not enough. Satellite mapping only tells us about 5 km resolution of the ocean floor, which means that we can see features and objects more than 5 km. In order to keep this in context, most of the planet Mars has been mapped to 6 meters and almost all Venus and 100% of the Moon has been mapped to 100 meters. Less than 10% of our oceans and perhaps close to 5% have been mapped to this extension. It is really disappointing for a marine biologist who is really hopeless for anyone who thinks about doing business on the oceans, thinking about the management of the oceans, thinking that we are going to oceans What to expect from the future … We are tilting around in darkness … how can we change the use of the ocean by having a detailed map. It will help with safety, such as charting potential threats that can take the ship down. This can be the cause of a more accurate climate model, a tsunami can better understand hazards and improve weather forecasting. This will help in putting sea cables, fibre optics and pipes.

Mapping The Oceans

However, it can also help in furthering the exploitation of the natural resources of the ocean, such as the precious metals used to make your cell phone. But keeping a detailed map will help us better understand how to protect the ocean when it starts to inevitably go ahead. The International Seedade Authority, which is in charge of overseeing the ocean mining on the high seas, is part of its in-charge to set up certain areas of special biological interest, which will not be mined and will be kept in the right places. Important is the biodiversity and the substance for the ocean function, it is necessary to know what is there … so you are not mine, for example, rain Not to put in the desert the protected area, is not it? So sea mapping it can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, people are trying to map the ocean to help create, understand and protect the geological and biological discoveries on the way. Others are trying to understand and exploit it, which potentially harm the bottom of the ocean. But these two groups can work together to achieve a goal which can benefit both sides. We manage the things you understand, we can map things like manganese nodules, which have the possibility of copper and nickel and cobalt.

Oceans Reality

We rely on ocean mapping before any kind of oil exploration, they should make a pirate both the ocean floor and sea level subframes, and in this case, here we are going to get complete understanding through mapping And they can set appropriate management perspectives so that if everyone wants this map, why has not this been done so far? Well, it will spend a lot of money. And take a lot of time. Maybe 200 ships year as a year. So with the present day technology, it will take approximately 200 years for a ship to ship the whole sea or 200 ships a year. The question is the cost. We have speculated that at the appropriate level of resolution, the entire Ocean will be spent on the order of $ 3 billion to map and you will say, “Wow, who would spend $ 3 billion to build a planet on a map?” And I point out the fact that we have sent a mission to the Moon, which we spend on orders of $ 600 million or less and make the moon better than mapping our planet. We have sent mission missions to Mars on Mars. Each of those missions costs between two and three billion dollars. And so we have a desire to do this. One way to cut costs is to do it fast, and the good news is that this plan is a plan. What started on the edge of the boat as the weight loss began using acoustic waves. By sending hundreds of laser-like beams of sound in the ocean and how long it takes to measure that the scientists can again depict the depth of the ocean more accurately.

Oceans Variations

We are trying to develop techniques to speed it up, to do it faster. And to do it with autonomous ships, vessels which are more efficient that you should not be a crew and autonomous ships must be sent out at one time and they have to start collecting the data … go out to put a drone And do it with autonomy, it is a new face which is currently developing, but it is still in its infancy. The number of drones going out to do this, this is something they are still making. So yes, one day in the near future, our oceans are going to get underwater drones or crew-less ships, crisscrossing the planet, to collect and send data, which will be converted into 3D maps of our oceans. Which is another obstacle we still need to know, what to do with this data? There is also a big challenge to gathering and synthesizing this data on a large scale … Keeping data stored on 500,000 hard drives and 500,000 ships is one thing, but you have to put everyone together in one place. And a boldly named group, Seabed 2030, is looking to lead that fight. The objective of the collaborative project between the Nippon Foundation and the GeBCO is to collect all the biometric data and prepare the world’s first highly detailed marine map, and it has to be done by 2030.

Mapping The Oceans In Future

It is amazing that whenever we go to the map in unknown waters, then we feel something that we did not know. This is the kind of discovery and exploration that actually drives me at least in the case of ocean mapping. And this is the passion, with their hard work, which has given to the people in the community who work for SEED 2030 and their near deadline and have roots. They can definitely use more resources if they will come closer to kill that goal, but I am going to move forward and at least aspiration, I hope they are right that they are mapped to us. Ocean will be 2030. I think the global initiative to do this by 2030 will be a lot of initiative. It will depend on developing technology and a consolidated effort with different players, but I am optimistic and I think it will be at some point. To understand the sea better we need a detailed map of the sea, and to do this, we need people, ships, advanced technology, global cooperation and of course money. So, how close are we to mapping the whole ocean? Well, all eyes are sealed at 2030 and 2030 as well as their goal is complete, also a public map. We will give it our oldest to do. This is a very ambitious goal. I’m not sure that we will get a hundred per cent there, but we are definitely going to take some steps on it. So our goal is to map it all to 2030.