Useful Links

The following are links to associated organisations, projects and useful data sets

Associated organisations and groups

• International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)
• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)
• IHO Inter-Regional Coordination Committee (IHO IRCC)
• IHO Crowd-Sourced Bathymetry Working Group (CSBWG)
• Regional Hydrographic Commissions (RHC)
• Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR)

Databases and resources

• Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Bremerhaven, Germany
• AusSeabed, Australia
• Baltic Sea Bathymetry Database (BSBD)
• Bathymetry Globe (BathyGlobe), Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM), USA
• Bathymetric Data Centre at the Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH), Germany
• Blue Marble next generation
• British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), Liverpool, UK
• Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping - Joint Hydrographic Center (CCOM-JHC), Durham, USA
• Crowdsourced Bathymetry
• European Directory of Marine Environmental Data (EDMED)
• European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet bathymetry) portal
• International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO Manuals and Guides
• Marineregions.org
• GeoMapApp, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, USA
• Geoscience Australia — bathymetry data information
• Geo-Seas — Pan-European Infrastructure for the Management of Marine and Ocean Geological and Geophysical Data
• GEOSS — the Global Earth Observation System of Systems
• Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) — open source software for viewing and manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets, including gridding, plotting, filtering, projecting etc.
• Great Lakes bathymetry
• IHO catalogue of publications
• IHO Data Center for Digital Bathymetry (IHO DCDB)
• The Integrated Mapping For the Sustainable Development of Ireland’s Marine Resource (INFOMAR)
• INSPIRE Portal and MEDIN Bathymetry Data Archive Centre
• International cruise information for ocean-going research vessels
• Marine Geophysics Data Management System (MGDS), Palisades, USA
• US National Centers For Environmental Information (NCEI) (NCEI), Boulder, USA
• National Oceanography Centre (NOC), UK
• NAUTILUS Portal — find out about data availability at SISMER, France
• New Zealand bathymetry — National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
• Ocean Data View (ODV) — software for viewing and analyzing oceanographic and other geo-referenced data
• Ocean Teacher — a training resource for data and information management related to oceanography and marine meteorology
• SeaDataNet — pan-european network providing on-line integrated databases of marine environmental data
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Antarctic Digital Database (ADD)
• Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) — land elevation data
• SRTM15_PLUS — coastal and ridge multibeam, estimated topography
• Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) data portal, British Geological Survey
• NOAA Coastal Elevation Models US National Centers for Environmental Information

International organisations

• IHO/IAG Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea (ABLOS)
• Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS), UN
• GEOHAB - Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping
• Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
• International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE)
• InterRidge
• International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Commission on Geoscience Education, Training and Technology Transfer 
• OneGeology
• Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO)
• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

Limits of oceans and seas

• Limits of Oceans and Seas (1953)

Ocean mapping projects

• Baltic Sea Bathymetry Database (BSBD)
• European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) Bathymetry
• International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO)
• International Bathymetric Chart of the Caribbean & Gulf of Mexico (IBCCA)
• International Bathymetric Chart of the Central Eastern Atlantic (IBCEA)
• International Bathymetric Chart of the Mediterranean (IBCM)
• International Bathymetric Chart of the South East Pacific (IBCSEP)
• International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO)
• International Bathymetric Chart of the Western Indian Ocean (IBCWIO)
• International Bathymetric Chart of the Western Pacific (IBCWP)
• GEBCO/Nippon Foundation Indian Ocean Bathymetric Compilation Project

Other links

• GISGeography open satelite imagery resource - https://gisgeography.com/free-satellite-imagery-data-list/

Related publications

• Becker, J. J., D. T. Sandwell, W. H. F. Smith, J. Braud, B. Binder, J. Depner, D. Fabre, J. Factor, S. Ingalls, S-H. Kim, R. Ladner, K. Marks, S. Nelson, A. Pharaoh, R. Trimmer, J. Von Rosenberg, G. Wallace, P. Weatherall., Global Bathymetry and Elevation Data at 30 Arc Seconds Resolution: SRTM30_PLUS, Marine Geodesy, 32:4, 355-371, 2009 DOI: 10.1080/01490410903297766 http://topex.ucsd.edu/sandwell/publications/124_MG_Becker.pdf
• Lurton, X.; Lamarche, G. (Eds) (2015) Backscatter measurements by seafloor-mapping sonars. Guidelines and Recommendations. 200p. 
• Sandwell, D.T., Gille, S.T., and Smith, W.H.F., eds., Bathymetry from Space:Oceanography, Geophysics, and Climate, Geoscience Professional Services, Bethesda, Maryland, June 2002, 24pp. http://www.geo-prose.com/pdfs/bathy_from_space.pdf
• W.H.F. Smith and Sandwell, D.T., Global Sea Floor Topography from Satellite Altimetry and Ship Depth Soundings, Science, VOL. 277, 26 September 1997 http://topex.ucsd.edu/sandwell/publications/74.pdf

Undersea features

• GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names