NASA Mission Creates a New Global Coastal Bathymetry Product

NASA Mission Creates a New Global Coastal Bathymetry Product

Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Earth and Space Science Measurements of bathymetry, the underwater depth of the ocean floor, are typically done for shallow coastal waters from boats with echosounders or from aircraft using green-wavelength lidar. However, these methods can be expensive to field, hard to update, and cannot access all locations. NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 …