Abstract
A better understanding of marine geomorphology is a common goal for seabed mapping programmes, with various mapping approaches, methodologies and challenges associated with systematically describing geomorphological features. To address these issues, and highlight the overall value of geomorphological mapping, a group of representatives from the seabed mapping programmes of the geological surveys of Norway, Ireland and the United Kingdom have formed a partnership to share their knowledge, expertise and technologies. Here we describe the first year of collaboration by outlining the background to and motivation for the groups’ national seabed mapping programmes, and presenting several case studies as well as tests to potentially adopt a harmonised classification scheme.
MIM partnership: MAREANO-INFOMAR-MAREMAP.
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Thorsnes, T. et al. (2018). National Programmes: Geomorphological Mapping at Multiple Scales for Multiple Purposes. In: Micallef, A., Krastel, S., Savini, A. (eds) Submarine Geomorphology. Springer Geology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57852-1_26
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