Spatial Variability and Robust Interpolation of Seafloor Sediment Properties Using the SEABED Data Bases

Abstract

This project is building methods for making the best possible grid maps of seafloor data, even for regions that have weak data coverage. The software and documentation will be made public. Gridded maps are the most sought-after type of information from seafloor properties databases, but computing them reliably is not straightforward. The technical goal of the project is a set of gridding methods that are mathematically rigorous and statistically reliable, robust under different qualities of input data, free of geometric artifacts, and acceptable on inspection to experts familiar with the terrain being mapped.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA522854

Entities

People

  • Chris Jenkins

Organizations

  • University of Colorado Boulder

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Baltic Sea
  • Climate Change
  • Data Fusion
  • Databases
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Geological Surveys
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Interpolation
  • Offshore
  • Regions
  • Ridges
  • Seabed
  • Sediments
  • Substrates
  • Surveys
  • Terrain

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics