® - EYES ON THE OCEAN, COASTS, AND GREAT LAKES™ (6 July 2022)
United Nations Ocean Decade Endorses Alaska Mapping Program:
The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development officially endorsed Seascape Alaska, a regional mapping campaign led by 's Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping program. Seascape Alaska began in 2021 in response to the 2020 National Strategy for Mapping, Exploring, and Characterizing the United States Exclusive Economic Zone and the Alaska Coastal Mapping Strategy.
With 66% of Alaska's coastal and ocean waters currently unmapped, the campaign seeks to fully map U.S. waters off Alaska by 2040. Seascape Alaska includes efforts to gather bathymetric data and understand habitat, seafloor, archaeological, biological, chemical, and other oceanic attributes. This project brings government and non-government sectors together to share mapping plans and advance technical innovations to more efficiently map and characterize the area in conjunction with Seabed 2030 - a collaborative project to inspire the complete mapping of the world’s ocean by 2030.
bdm (U.S. : 07/06/23)
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