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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

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