3-Dimensional image of Monterey Canyon system, Pioneer and Guide Seamounts, and
approximately 9,000 square nautical miles of continental slope area. This image
was derived from approximately 4,000,000 soundings acquired by the NOAA Exclusiv
e Economic Zone Mapping Project. At the time this was made, it was the largest
computer-generated 3-D view of the seafloor ever generated by multi-beam data.
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