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The 5th GEBCO Science Day will be hosted in Callao, Peru by the Peruvian Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation on 15th September 2010. GEBCO Science Day is held every year as part of GEBCO's meetings. We announce the call for papers on any topics related to ocean mapping and its applications for

The latest version of the GEBCO Gazetteer of Geographic Names of Undersea Features is now available to download in the form of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or Adobe PDF file. Find out more about the Gazetteer and the work of the GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names ( SCUFN) and how to

The latest version of the GEBCO Gazetteer of Geographic Names of Undersea Features is now available to download. This release includes all names agreed at the last meeting of the GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) in September 2009. Find out more about the gazetteer and the work

The Nippon Foundation of Japan has provided funding for GEBCO to train a new generation of scientists and hydrographers in ocean bathymetry. The 12-month course, leading to a Postgraduate Certificate in Ocean Bathymetry (PCOB), has been held at the University of New Hampshire, USA, since 2004. Find

Recognising the importance of the contributions of regional experts in improving its global bathymetric models, GEBCO has setup the Interim Sub-Committee on Regional Undersea Mapping (ISCRUM). ISCRUM's aim is to build a closer collaboration with regional mapping efforts and coordinate, as well as

The GEBCO_08 Grid is a 30 arc-second grid of global elevations; it is a continuous terrain model for ocean and land. The grid was generated by combining quality-controlled ship depth soundings with interpolation between sounding points guided by satellite-derived gravity data and was first released

The GEBCO_08 Grid is a 30 arc-second interval global terrain model and was first released in January 2009 and updated in November 2009. The grid has been generated by combining quality-controlled ship depth soundings, with predicted depths between the sounding points guided by satellite-derived

Presentations from the Fourth GEBCO Science Day held at Oceanopolis, Brest, France in September 2009 are now available along with those from previous years. The annual GEBCO Bathymetric Science Day is held during the meeting of the GEBCO Technical Sub-Committee on Ocean Mapping, TSCOM, and is open

Version 2.12 of GEBCO Digital Atlas (GDA) software interface has been released. This supersedes previous versions and is available for download for use by existing GDA users along with instructions on how to install and use the software. The GDA is a reference source for the bathymetry of the world

Version 2.11 of the free software for viewing and accessing data from GEBCO’s gridded bathymetric data sets is now available. The software provides the means for displaying the data and accessing the data in simple ASCII formats as well as netCDF. It has been developed to run on a PC running