Progress in Seafloor Mapping
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 495
Special Issue Editors
2. Coastal Processes and Ecosystems (CaPE) Laboratory, Center for Coastal Studies, 5 Holway Ave, Provincetown, MA 02657, USA
Interests: coastal sediment transport; tidal inlets; seafloor mapping
Interests: autonomous underwater vehicles for seafloor mapping
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ocean and coastal seafloor mapping are critical to our understanding of the processes that shape these areas and help us better understand possible future landform evolution. The impacts of climate change include sea level rise, increasing storm intensities, and anthropogenic alteration. This Special Issue invites papers using sensors, techniques, and platforms for seafloor mapping, as well as those that use the latest seafloor mapping data.
Sensors, Techniques, and Platforms:
- Acoustic: Side-scan imagery, bathymetry, backscatter, and seismic reflection profiling;
- Optical: bathymetric lidar, UAS imagery, structure from motion, and satellite;
- Modeling: wave, near-shore bathymetry, etc.;
- Multi-modal studies;
- Machine and deep learning and AI;
- Crewed and uncrewed vessels, autonomous surface vessels and autonomous underwater vessels and gliders.
Studies with state-of-the-art seafloor mapping techniques concern:
- Sediment transport;
- Tidal inlets;
- Barrier islands and spits;
- Salt marsh and submerged aquatic vegetation;
- Mangroves and rocky coasts;
- Continental shelf and slope processes;
- Benthic habitat studies;
- Application of CMECS and other classification systems for seafloor mapping;
- Anthropogenic alterations;
- Siting of wind, wave, and tidal energy projects;
- Marine debris;
- Unexploded ordnance.
Dr. Mark Borrelli
Dr. Arthur Trembanis
Dr. Bryan A. Oakley
Guest Editors
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