Flight paths over the unmapped ocean

1 March 2017
Coverage of ships tracklines along which bathymetric depth measurements have been made in the Indian Ocean area west of Australia

Access an ‘opinion paper’ on airline flight paths over the unmapped ocean:

Smith, W. H. F., K. M. Marks, and T. Schmitt (2017), Airline flight paths over the unmapped ocean, Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO069127. Published on 08 March 2017.

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