The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has pledged to map around 80% of the world\u2019s ocean floors by 2030. <\/span>At present, only 20% of the seabed has been mapped and studied.<\/span><\/p>\n The ocean floor is being mapped and studied to identify the following: a)<\/strong> Location of ocean faults, b)<\/strong> Workings of ocean currents and c)<\/strong> tides and Transport of sediments.<\/span><\/p>\n For this, the <\/span>Seabed 2030 Project<\/span><\/a> has also been launched in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n The ocean floor will be mapped by Deploying a fleet of 50 dedicated mapping vessels, intensifying the use of sonar on autonomous vessels, the transmission of cartographic data archived by governments and corporations and using other tools.<\/span><\/p>\n The ocean floor mapping will help us understand a)<\/strong> seismic and tsunami risks, b)<\/strong> sustainable fisheries resources, c)<\/strong> ways to deal with oil spills, d)<\/strong> air crashes and shipwrecks, e)<\/strong> potential for offshore infrastructure and f)<\/strong> in assessing the future effects of climate change, whether it be temperature increases or sea-level rise.<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u201cUnderstanding oceans: Why UNESCO wants to map 80% of the world\u2018s seabed\u201d <\/b>published in Down To Earth <\/b>on 11th Feb 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has pledged to map around 80% of the world\u2019s ocean floors by 2030. At present, only 20% of the seabed has been mapped and studied. Why is the ocean floor being mapped by UNESCO? The ocean floor is being mapped and studied… Continue reading Understanding oceans: Why UNESCO wants to map 80% of the world\u2018s seabed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-168247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700120323},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why is the ocean floor being mapped by UNESCO?<\/b><\/h5>\n
How will be the ocean floor get mapped?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the significance of ocean floor mapping?<\/b><\/h5>\n