The global bathymetry and topography grid at 15 Arc Sec is the latest iteration of the SRTM+ digital elevation model (DEM) where the "plus" indicates the addition of ocean bathymetry from shipboard soundings and satellite-derived predicted depths. This DEM is a global elevation grid with a spatial sampling interval of 15 arc seconds (approximately 500 x 500 m pixel size at the equator). New data consists of >33.6 million multibeam and singlebeam measurements collated by several institutions, namely, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Geoscience Australia, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. New altimetry data consists of 48, 14, and 12 months of retracked range measurements from Cryosat-2, SARAL/AltiKa, and Jason-2, respectively. Onshore, topography data are sourced from previously published digital elevation models, predominately SRTM-CGIAR V4.1 between 60N and 60S. ArcticDEM is used above 60N, while Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica is used below 62S.

For more information on this dataset, see its associated publication:
Tozer, B, Sandwell, D. T., Smith, W. H. F., Olson, C., Beale, J. R., & Wessel, P. (2019). Global bathymetry and topography at 15 arc sec: SRTM15+. Earth and Space Science, 6, 1847. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EA000658

or visit the project website here for more details.

OpenTopography enabled access to version 2.5.5 of this dataset on November 6th 2023. Previous to this date, OpenTopography was supplying V2.1

The GEBCO world map shows the shape and depth of the global ocean floor as a shaded relief map. This is the third release of the map and now includes the names of features on the sea floor from the IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names. The map is based upon bathymetry data from the GEBCO_08 Grid, version 20100927, a global bathymetric grid with 30 arc-second spacing. The land imagery is taken from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Blue Marble data set. The coastline is taken from the World Vector Shoreline.

GEBCO's aim is to provide the most authoritative publicly-available bathymetry of the world's oceans. It operates under the joint auspices of the International Hydrographic Organization(IHO) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) (of UNESCO).

GEBCO produces and makes available a range of bathymetric data sets and products. This includes a global bathymetric grid; gazetteer of undersea feature names, a Web Map Service and printable maps of ocean bathymetry.

GEBCO’s current gridded bathymetric data set, the GEBCO_2024 Grid, is a global terrain model for ocean and land, providing elevation data, in meters, on a 15 arc-second interval grid. It is accompanied by a Type Identifier (TID) Grid that gives information on the types of source data that the GEBCO_2024 Grid is based on.

GEBCO releases a new global grid every year, generally in late June. Find out more about the grid generation process.

The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 project has produced a global terrain model for ocean and land. The GEBCO_2023 grid was published in April 2023 and is the fifth GEBCO grid developed through The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. This is a collaborative project between the Nippon Foundation of Japan and GEBCO. The Seabed 2030 Project aims to bring together all available bathymetric data to produce the definitive map of the world ocean floor and make it available to all.

The GEBCO_2023 Grid is a continuous, global terrain model for ocean and land with a spatial resolution of 15 arc seconds. Between latitudes of 50° South and 60° North it uses version 2.5.5 of the SRTM15+ dataset as a \"base\". This data set is a fusion of land topography with measured and estimated seafloor topography. This version of SRTM15+ is similar to version 2.1 [Tozer et al., 2019] but includes additional data sets. It uses predicted depths based on the V32 gravity model [Sandwell et al., 2019]. The SRTM15+ base grid has been augmented with the gridded bathymetric data sets developed by the four Seabed 2030 Regional Centers to produce the GEBCO_2023 Grid. Note: SRTM15+ V2.5.5 is also available through OpenTopography here.

The information for ice-surface elevation and under-ice topography/bathymetry is taken from IceBridge BedMachine Greenland, Version 4.6 (Morlighem, M. et al. 2017) and data based on MEaSUREs BedMachine Antarctica, Version 2 (Morlighem, M. et al 2020).

NOTE: This dataset includes under-ice sheet topography. For a version of the dataset with ice surface topography see \"GEBCO IceTopo\" below under \"Other Available Data Products\".

Second version of a bathymetric map of the Baker-Martinez fjord complex (Chile, 48°S) constructed from multiple data sets: multibeam echosounder data of Baker channel (Harada et al., 2008) and of Steffen fjord and Baker river delta (Vandekerkhove et al.), single beam echosounder data of Martinez channel (R/V Sur-Austral 2015/2016) and Jorge Montt fjord (Rivera et al., 2012, Moffat, 2014 and additional data from C. Moffat) and individual bathymetry points (digitized using Global Mapper software) from two SHOA nautical charts (SHOA, 2001, 2008). The heterogeneous data with distinct spatial resolution was gridded using the kriging method (3.6 arc-second resolution) in Surfer from Golden Software. Compared to the first version (Piret et al., 2017), this new version features improved bathymetry for the Martinez Channel. We intend to update this map when new data sets become available. The data file is in the netCDF GMT-compatible grid format. Geographic (unprojected lat/lon) Coordinate System – World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84). The previous version of this bathymetry is available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5285521.v3 (figshare).

The GEBCO_2020 Grid is a global continuous terrain model for ocean and land with a spatial resolution of 15 arc seconds. In regions outside of the Arctic Ocean area, the grid uses as a base Version 2 of the SRTM15_plus data set (Tozer, B. et al, 2019). This data set is a fusion of land topography with measured and estimated seafloor topography. Included on top of this base grid are gridded bathymetric data sets developed by the four Regional Centers of The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. The GEBCO_2020 Grid represents all data within the 2020 compilation. The compilation of the GEBCO_2020 Grid was carried out at the Seabed 2030 Global Center, hosted at the National Oceanography Centre, UK, with the aim of producing a seamless global terrain model. Outside of Polar regions, the gridded bathymetric data sets supplied by the Regional Centers, as sparse grids, i.e. only grid cells that contain data were populated, were included on to the base grid without any blending. The data sets supplied in the form of complete grids (primarily areas north of 60N and south of 50S) were included using feather blending techniques from GlobalMapper software. The GEBCO_2020 Grid has been developed through the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. This is a collaborative project between the Nippon Foundation of Japan and the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). It aims to bring together all available bathymetric data to produce the definitive map of the world ocean floor by 2030 and make it available to all. Funded by the Nippon Foundation, the four Seabed 2030 Regional Centers include the Southern Ocean - hosted at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany; South and West Pacific Ocean - hosted at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand; Atlantic and Indian Oceans - hosted at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA; Arctic and North Pacific Oceans - hosted at Stockholm University, Sweden and the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire, USA.

This is an image service providing a shaded relief visualization of bathymetric/topographic digital elevation models stewarded at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). This service provides a color shaded relief visualization of the data; for elevation/depth values in meters, please see the related DEM Global Mosaic (Elevation Values) or DEM Mosaic (Individual DEMs) services.

The DEM Global Mosaic is an image service providing access to bathymetric/topographic digital elevation models stewarded at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), along with global and regional grids such as GEBCO_2019, IBCAO, IBCSO, and the Hawaiian Island Multibeam Synthesis (University of Hawaii). This service provides a color shaded relief visualization, for elevation/depth values in meters, please see the related DEM Global Mosaic (Elevation Values) service.

There are 5 related image services providing access to Digital Elevation Models:

• DEM Mosaic (Individual DEMs)
  
• DEM Global Mosaic (Elevation Values)
  
• DEM Global Mosaic (Color Shaded Relief)
  
• DEM Tiles Mosaic (Newer Tiled DEMs; Elevation Values)
  
• DEM Tiles Mosaic (Newer Tiled DEMs; Color Shaded Relief)
  

NCEI builds and distributes high-resolution, coastal digital elevation models (DEMs) that integrate ocean bathymetry and land topography to support NOAA's mission to understand and predict changes in Earth's environment, and conserve and manage coastal and marine resources to meet our Nation's economic, social, and environmental needs. They can be used for modeling of coastal processes (tsunami inundation, storm surge, sea-level rise, contaminant dispersal, etc.), ecosystems management and habitat research, coastal and marine spatial planning, and hazard mitigation and community preparedness. For more information about coastal DEMs at NCEI, please see: http://ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coastal/coastal.html or learn more from our DEM Fact Sheet (1 MB PDF).

This service is a general-purpose global, seamless bathymetry/topography mosaic. It combines DEMs from a variety of near sea-level vertical datums, such as mean high water (MHW), mean sea level (MSL), and North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88). No conversion/harmonization of vertical datums was performed. Because the mosaic contains "overviews" for performance, individual DEMs cannot be separated from the others. Individual DEMs, or smaller subsets, are available in the companion DEM Mosaic (Individual DEMs) image service.

By default, the DEMs are drawn in order of cell size, with higher-resolution grids displayed on top of lower-resolution grids. If overlapping DEMs have the same resolution, the newer one is shown.

The DEMs can be viewed in NCEI's Bathymetric Data Viewer along with other bathymetric datasets stewarded at NCEI.

Please see NCEI's corresponding DEM Footprints map service for polygon footprints and more information about the individual DEMs used to create this composite view. The newer 1/3 and 1/9 arcsecond "tiled" DEMs are hosted by NOAA's Office for Coastal Management; please see the Data Access Viewer for access to these data. View these services together in a single combined map.

In this visualization, the elevations/depths are displayed using this color ramp:


THREDDS catalog (for extracting/downloading DEMs)

The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) consists of an international group of experts who work on the development of a range of bathymetric data sets and products. GEBCO operates under the joint auspices of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. See our web site for more information about GEBCO at https://www.gebco.net/. This service provides access to GEBCO's latest global bathymetric grid, GEBCO_2014, in the form of shaded relief imagery as layer 'GEBCO_LATEST'. It also provides access to imagery based on the Source Identifier (SID) Grid that accompanies the GEBCO_2014 Grid as GEBCO_LATEST_SID. The GEBCO_2014 Grid is a global grid of elevation data at 30 arc-second intervals. This data set is available as a Web Map Service (WMS) for use as imagery in your applications. The bathymetric portion of the grid was largely generated from a database of ship-track soundings with interpolation between soundings guided by satellite-derived gravity data. However, in areas where they improve on the existing GEBCO Grid, data sets generated by other methods have been included. Further information about the data sets included in the grid can be found in the documentation that accompanies the data set and is available from https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/ Within the GEBCO grid land elevation data is largely taken from the 30 arc-second version of the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data set (SRTM30). Further details can be found in the data set's documentation. The imagery for land areas in this WMS, north of 60 degrees south, is largely taken from the NASA Blue Marble: Next Generation data set, produced by Reto Stockli, NASA Earth Observatory, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/BlueMarble). For land areas south of 60 degrees south, coastline and ice shelf information is taken from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Antarctic Digital Database coastline dataset (http://www.add.scar.org). The GEBCO global grid is accompanied by a Source Identifier (SID) grid - this indicates which of the corresponding cells in the GEBCO grid are based on soundings or existing grids and which are interpolated. The SID grid accompanying the GEBCO_2014 Grid is available as a layer in this WMS, GEBCO_LATEST_SID. GEBCO's first gloabl 30 arc-second interval terrain model was the GEBCO_08 Grid, published in January 2009. The WMS layer generated for the 2010 version of the GEBCO_08 Grid is included as a layer, 'GEBCO_08', within this WMS to accommodate users of this existing WMS layer. Information on how to download the GEBCO's grids can be found at https://www.gebco.net/ Please note that GEBCO's grids are mainly deeper water data sets and do not contain detailed bathymetry in shallower water areas. This WMS has been developed by the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) on behalf of the GEBCO community. If imagery from this WMS is included in web sites, reports and digital and printed imagery then we request that the source of the dataset is acknowledged and be of the form 'Imagery reproduced from the GEBCO Grid, version xxxxxx, www.gebco.net'. Where 'version xxxxxx' is the appropriate version number of the GEBCO Grid, given in the layer information below.

World Bathymetry Base Map tile cache. The service includes world bathymetry data, and ocean, country, population and natural features. The information was derived from various sources, including …Show full descriptionWorld Bathymetry Base Map tile cache. The service includes world bathymetry data, and ocean, country, population and natural features. The information was derived from various sources, including Natural Earth and National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) ETOPO2 Global 2 Elevations from the September 2001 data. The service contains layer scale dependencies.

The GEBCO Grid is a global terrain model for oceans and land at 30 arc-second intervals which was developed and first released in 2009 by the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) as GEBCO 08. The current release is GEBCO 2014, released in December 2014 and updated in March 2015. GEBCO is an international group of experts who work on the development of a range of bathymetric (accurate mapping of the sea floor) data sets and data products. The bathymetric portion of the grid is largely based on a database of ship-track soundings with interpolation between soundings guided by satellite-derived gravity data. Data sets developed by other methods are also included where they improve the grid. The land portion of the grid is largely based on the US Geological Survey's SRMT30 data set, developed with data from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM). For the area around Antarctica, the land data are taken from the Bedmap2 data set. The grid is accompanied by a Source Identifier (SID) Grid which identifies which cells in the GEBCO Grid are based on soundings or existing grids and which have been interpolated. The data sets are updated as new bathymetric compilations are made available. Both grids are freely available to download, in netCDF; data GeoTiff and Esri ASCII raster formats, from the web. Free software is available for viewing and accessing data from the grids in netCDF and ASCII data formats. The grids are also included as part of the GEBCO Digital Atlas DVD.

A global 1-km resolution bathymetric digital elevation model (DEM) grayscale hillshade of the ocean floor. Derived from the SRTM30+ v11 dataset produced at Scripps Institution of Oceanography from United States Geological Survey (USGS) 30 arc-second SRTM30 gridded DEM data, itself a product of NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Bathymetry are based on the Smith and Sandwell global 1 arc-minute grid between latitudes +/- 81 degrees. Higher resolution grids have been added from the LDEO Ridge Multibeam Synthesis Project, the JAMSTEC Data Site for Research Cruises, and the NGDC Coastal Relief Model. Arctic bathymetry is from the International Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (IBCAO). For the related dataset containing numeric bathymetry values for this image layer, see http://pacioos.org/metadata/srtm30plus_v11_bathy.html

The map is designed to be used as a basemap by marine GIS professionals and as a reference map by anyone interested in ocean data. The basemap focuses on bathymetry. It also includes inland waters and roads, overlaid on land cover and shaded relief imagery.The Ocean Base map currently provides coverage for the world down to a scale of ~1:577k; coverage down to ~1:72k in United States coastal areas and various other areas; and coverage down to ~1:9k in limited regional areas.The World Ocean Reference is designed to be drawn on top of this map and provides selected city labels throughout the world. This web map lets you view the World Ocean Base with the Reference service drawn on top. Article in the Fall 2011 ArcUser about this basemap: "A Foundation for Ocean GIS".The map was compiled from a variety of best available sources from several data providers, including General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans GEBCO_08 Grid version 20100927 and IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names August 2010 version (https://www.gebco.net), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Geographic for the oceans; and Garmin, and Esri for topographic content. You can contribute your bathymetric data to this service and have it served by Esri for the benefit of the Ocean GIS community. For details on the users who contributed bathymetric data for this map via the Community Maps Program, view the list of Contributors for the Ocean Basemap. The basemap was designed and developed by Esri. The GEBCO_08 Grid is largely based on a database of ship-track soundings with interpolation between soundings guided by satellite-derived gravity data. In some areas, data from existing grids are included. The GEBCO_08 Grid does not contain detailed information in shallower water areas, information concerning the generation of the grid can be found on GEBCO's website: https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/. The GEBCO_08 Grid is accompanied by a Source Identifier (SID) Grid which indicates which cells in the GEBCO_08 Grid are based on soundings or existing grids and which have been interpolated. The latest version of both grids and accompanying documentation is available to download, on behalf of GEBCO, from the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/online_delivery/gebco/.The names of the IHO (International Hydrographic Organization), IOC (intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission), GEBCO (General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans), NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) or BODC (British Oceanographic Data Centre) may not be used in any way to imply, directly or otherwise, endorsement or support of either the Licensee or their mapping system.Tip: Here are some famous oceanic locations as they appear this map. Each URL launches this map at a particular location via parameters specified in the URL: Challenger Deep, Galapagos Islands, Hawaiian Islands, Maldive Islands, Mariana Trench, Tahiti, Queen Charlotte Sound, Notre Dame Bay, Labrador Trough, New York Bight, Massachusetts Bay, Mississippi Sound

The GEBCO_2024 Grid is a global continuous terrain model for ocean and land with a spatial resolution of 15 arc seconds. In regions outside of the Arctic Ocean and Southern Ocean areas, the grid uses as a base, Version 2.6 of the SRTM15+ data set between latitudes of 50 degrees South and 60 degrees North. This data set is a fusion of land topography with measured and estimated seafloor topography. Included on top of this base grid are gridded bathymetric data sets developed by the four Regional Centers of The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. The GEBCO_2024 Grid represents all data within the 2024 compilation. The compilation of the GEBCO_2024 Grid was carried out at the Seabed 2030 Global Center, hosted at the National Oceanography Centre, UK, with the aim of producing a seamless global terrain model. Outside of Polar regions, the gridded bathymetric data sets supplied by the Regional Centers, as sparse grids, i.e. only grid cells that contain data were populated, were included on to the base grid with blending with the aim of generating a continuous terrain surface. The data sets supplied in the form of complete grids (primarily areas north of 60N and south of 50S) were included using feather blending techniques from GlobalMapper software. The primary GEBCO_2024 Grid contains land and ice surface elevation. In addition, a version of the data set is made available with under-ice topography/bathymetry information for Greenland and Antarctica. The GEBCO_2024 Grid has been developed through the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. This is a collaborative project between the Nippon Foundation and the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). It aims to bring together all available bathymetric data to produce the definitive map of the world ocean floor by 2030 and make it available to all. Funded by the Nippon Foundation, the four Seabed 2030 Regional Centers include the Southern Ocean - hosted at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany; South and West Pacific Ocean - hosted at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand; Atlantic and Indian Oceans - hosted at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA; Arctic and North Pacific Oceans - hosted at Stockholm University, Sweden and the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire, USA.

These shapefiles present the coastline, 20m depth and 50m depth contour lines for this second version of a bathymetric map of the Baker-Martinez fjord complex (Chile, 48°S). They are intended to be used in Ocean Data View (ODV). The data set is constructed from multiple data sets: multibeam echosounder data of Baker channel (Harada et al., 2008) and of Steffen fjord and Baker river delta (Vandekerkhove et al.), single beam echosounder data of Martinez channel (R/V Sur-Austral 2015/2016) and Jorge Montt fjord (Rivera et al., 2012, Moffat, 2014 and additional data from C. Moffat) and individual bathymetry points (digitized using Global Mapper software) from two SHOA nautical charts (SHOA, 2001, 2008). The heterogeneous data with distinct spatial resolution was gridded using the kriging method (3.6 arc-second resolution) in Surfer from Golden Software. Compared to the first version (Piret et al., 2017), this new version features improved bathymetry for the Martinez Channel. We intend to update this map when new data sets become available. The data files are in ESRI shapefile format (to use them in ODV, see section 3.1 of the manual v 5.0: https://odv.awi.de/fileadmin/user_upload/odv/misc/HowTo.pdf). Geographic (unprojected lat/lon) Coordinate System – World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84). The previous version of this bathymetry is available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5285521.v3 (figshare).

The EMODnet Bathymetry World Base Layer (EBWB) service is a gridded representation of worldwide bathymetric and topographic coverage adapted for a better representation of seabed morphological features. Based on modern WMTS schema, it allows a fluid and powerful rendering.

For the global oceans EBWB1 is composed of the 2018 EMODnet Bathymetric grid around Europe (approx. 100m resolution) and uses the GEBCO 2019 grid (approx. 500m resolution) elsewhere in the marine environment. Land coverage is based on a combination of 30 arc second ASTER GDEM, SRTM3, EU-DEM, and Global 1 second world-wide water body map for the topographic part. This compilation of publicly available data sources have been merged and pre-tiled for rendering, at 10 levels of zoom starting from 1/24th of an arcminute (approx. 75m resolution). The EBWB1 service is available in non-projected system (Lat, Long, WGS84: EPSG:4086), Web Mercator (EPSG:3857), Inspire compliant ETRS-EALA projection (EPSG:3035) and projections adapted to both poles (ESPG 3031 and 3996)

Service URL: https://tiles.emodnet-bathymetry.eu/wmts/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml

The GEBCO_2014 Grid - a continuous terrain model for oceans and land at 30 arc-second intervals. The data in the GEBCO_2014 Grid should not be used for navigation or any purpose relating to safety at sea. cdm_data_type=Grid comment=The data in the GEBCO_2014 Grid should not be used for navigation or any purpose relating to safety at sea. Conventions=CF-1.6, COARDS, ACDD-1.3 Easternmost_Easting=-9.995833333333334 geospatial_lat_max=50.00416666666666 geospatial_lat_min=-0.004166666666666667 geospatial_lat_resolution=0.008333333333333333 geospatial_lat_units=degrees_north geospatial_lon_max=-9.995833333333334 geospatial_lon_min=-99.99583333333334 geospatial_lon_resolution=0.008333333333333333 geospatial_lon_units=degrees_east history=This is version 20150318 of the data set. Information on the history of the data set can be found in the data set documentation available from the internet: http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/ infoUrl=??? institution=GEBCO, BODC . keywords_vocabulary=GCMD Science Keywords node_offset=1 Northernmost_Northing=50.00416666666666 references=Information on the data set is available from the GEBCO project web pages: http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/ source=The bathymetric portion of the GEBCO_2014 Grid was largely developed from a database of ship track soundings with interpolation between soundings guided by satellite-derived gravity data. In areas where they improve on this existing base grid, data sets developed by other methods are included. Recognising the importance of local expertise when building a global bathymetric model, GEBCO have been working with regional mapping groups to improve the existing GEBCO grid. Details about the development of the grid and the data sets included can be found in the documentation that accompanies the data set. With the exception of polar regions, land data are based on the 1-km averages of topography derived from version 2.0 of the US Geological Survey SRTM30 gridded digital elevation model data product, created with data from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. For the Arctic region north of 64N the GEBCO grid is based on the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) v3. This data set uses land data taken largely from the Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) data set. Over Greenland the approximately 2000 by 2000 m resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM) published by Ekholm (1996) is used. For the Southern Ocean area, south of 60S, land data are taken from Bedmap2 data set as included in the International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO). The grid is accompanied by a Source Identifier grid, which identifies which grid cells are based on soundings or existing grids and which have been interpolated. The grid uses the convention that depths are negative. sourceUrl=(local files) Southernmost_Northing=-0.004166666666666667 standard_name_vocabulary=CF Standard Name Table v70 Westernmost_Easting=-99.99583333333334

Bathymetry of lake bottoms and non-wadeable streams for detecting environmental change as well as for determining lake morphology, habitat features, and water quality.

This map is designed to be used as a basemap by marine GIS professionals and as a reference map by anyone interested in ocean data. The basemap includes bathymetry, marine water body names, undersea feature names, and derived depth values in meters. Land features include administrative boundaries, cities, inland waters, roads, overlaid on land cover and shaded relief imagery.

The map was compiled from a variety of best available sources from several data providers, including General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans GEBCO_08 Grid version 20100927 and IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names August 2010 version (https://www.gebco.net), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Geographic for the oceans; and DeLorme, HERE, and Esri for topographic content. The basemap was designed and developed by Esri.

The Ocean Basemap currently provides coverage for the world down to a scale of ~1:577k; coverage down to ~1:72k in United States coastal areas and various other areas; and coverage down to ~1:9k in limited regional areas. You can contribute your bathymetric data to this service and have it served by Esri for the benefit of the Ocean GIS community. For details, see the Community Maps Program.

Tip: Here are some famous oceanic locations as they appear in this map. Each URL below launches this map at a particular location via parameters specified in the URL: Challenger Deep, Galapagos Islands, Hawaiian Islands, Maldive Islands, Mariana Trench, Tahiti, Queen Charlotte Sound, Notre Dame Bay, Labrador Trough, New York Bight, Massachusetts Bay, Mississippi Sound

The GEBCO_2019 Grid is a global continuous terrain model for ocean and land with a spatial resolution of 15 arc seconds. The grid uses as a ‘base’ Version 1 of the SRTM15_plus data set (Sandwell et al). This data set is a fusion of land topography with measured and estimated seafloor topography. It is largely based on version 11 of SRTM30_plus (5). Included on top of this base grid are gridded bathymetric data sets developed by the four Regional Centers of The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, and from a number of international and national data repositories and regional mapping initiatives. The GEBCO_2019 Grid represents all data within the 2019 compilation. The compilation of the GEBCO_2019 Grid was carried out at the Seabed 2030 Global Center, hosted at the National Oceanography Centre, UK, with the aim of producing a seamless global terrain model. The majority of the compilation was done using the 'remove-restore' procedure (Smith and Sandwell, 1997; Becker, Sandwell and Smith, 2009 and Hell and Jakobsson, 2011). This is a two stage process of computing the difference between the new data and the ‘base’ grid and then gridding the difference and adding the difference back to the existing ‘base’ grid. The aim is to achieve a smooth transition between the 'new' and 'base' data sets with the minimum of perturbation of the existing base data set. The data sets supplied in the form of complete grids (primarily areas north of 60N and south of 50S) were included using feather blending techniques from GlobalMapper software. The GEBCO_2019 Grid has been developed through the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. This is a collaborative project between the Nippon Foundation of Japan and the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO). It aims to bring together all available bathymetric data to produce the definitive map of the world ocean floor by 2030 and make it available to all. Funded by the Nippon Foundation, the four Seabed 2030 Regional Centers include the Southern Ocean - hosted at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany; South and West Pacific Ocean - hosted at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand; Atlantic and Indian Oceans - hosted at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA; Arctic and North Pacific Oceans - hosted at Stockholm University, Sweden and the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire, USA).