A Synergistic Combination of Technologies: Multibeam Bathymetry, Acoustic Reflectivity, Gravity, and Magnetics in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

Abstract

Exploration and production in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico is hampered by an absence of existing survey data. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, NOAA ventured to map the deep Gulf of Mexico with multibeam sonar. Unfortunately, this visionary project lacked both the funding for completion and the technology to provide the survey accuracy and resolution presently desired.