General news

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

An updated version of GEBCO's Grid display software is available to download for use with GEBCO's gridded bathymetric data sets. It now provides the means for displaying and accessing the data in netCDF and ASCII from the GEBCO One Minute Grid — a global one arc-minute grid the GEBCO_08 Grid — a

The GEBCO_08 Grid, GEBCO's recently released 30 arc-second global bathymetric grid, has been used in Google Earth 5.0 as a foundation layer for its global 3D model showing the shape of the seafloor. The grid has been developed by combining quality-controlled ship-track soundings with interpolation

The latest release of Google Earth uses the GEBCO_08 grid to model the shape of the seafloor. Since its launch, there has been intense interest in the ridges, seamounts and trenches shown and even suggestions that the legendary lost city of Atlantis has been found! It is true that we have better

The 4th GEBCO Science Day will be hosted by the Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (SHOM) at Oceanopolis, Brest, France on 29th September 2009. GEBCO Science Day is held every year as part of the meeting of the GEBCO Technical Subcommittee on Ocean Mapping ( TSCOM). We announce

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

The latest version of the GEBCO Gazetteer of Geographic Names of Undersea Features is now available in the form of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. This release includes all names agreed at the last meeting of the GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) in May 2008. Find out more about

GEBCO have released the GEBCO_08, a global bathymetric grid with 30 arc-second spacing. It is a continuous terrain model for ocean and land, with land data largely derived from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM30) data set. The grid has been generated by combining quality-controlled ship