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The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project is teaming up with Fugro, one of the world’s leading private sector off-shore survey companies, to help map the entire ocean floor by 2030. David Millar, Fugro Government Accounts Director, Americas, speaking on the importance of sharing data to create

At a press conference, held on 20 February in Tokyo, the Chairman of The Nippon Foundation, Mr. Yohei Sasakawa, has announced that The Nippon Foundation – GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project is now operational. The Project will realise Mr Sasakawa's vision to map the entirety of the world's ocean floor by

The oceans cover over two thirds of our planet and it is often said that we know more about the shape of the surface of Mars than we do about that of our global seafloor. Seabed 2030 is a collaborative project between GEBCO and the Nippon Foundation with the aim of facilitating the complete mapping

The annual GEBCO Symposium consists of oral and poster presentations on a wide range of topics relating to ocean-floor mapping and its applications. It is open to all to contribute and attend. The latest Symposium was held on 15th November 2017 in Busan, Republic of Korea and hosted by the

The GEBCO-NF Alumni Team has completed Technology Readiness Tests of its entry in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE competition. Supported by KONGSBERG, their unique Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) / Autonomous Underwater Vessel (AUV) concept and associated combination of communications technology is

The GEBCO chart series was initiated in 1903 by Prince Albert I of Monaco - providing information on the shape and depth of the global seafloor. Through the 20th Century, there were five paper editions of the charts series before GEBCO released its first digital products in the early 1990s. The

The GEBCO-NF Alumni Team, one of the teams competing in the $7 Million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE competition, has entered its testing phase ahead of the competition’s upcoming semi-final stage. Find out more, read our latest press release (246 KB) The Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE is a global

After an election at the IHO Assembly in April this year, the GEBCO community is pleased to send its congratulations to the new IHO Secretary General, Dr Mathias Jonas and Directors Rear Admiral (retired) Mustafa Iptes and Captain Abri Kampfer. About the IHO The International Hydrographic

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project aims to facilitate the complete mapping of the ocean floor by the year 2030. It builds on over 100 years of GEBCO's history in global seafloor mapping. The Seabed 2030 Project was announced at the United Nations Ocean Conference in New York on 6 June

The Nippon Foundation/GEBCO Training Programme is a twelve-month course leading to a Postgraduate Certificate in Ocean Bathymetry (POCB). It is held at the University of New Hampshire, USA and aims to build a new generation of seafloor mappers. The Year 13 scholars recently had the opportunity to