Hawaii from Cross Seamount
Oahu & Molokai
Big Island & Loihi
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... closer still
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HURL has recently obtained powerful computer graphics workstations and modern visualization software, not unlike those used to create 3D virtual terrain effects in video games and movies. We use these tools to explore real seafloor terrain from data acquired by bathymetric sonar systems on research vessels.
Examples of images and videos obtained from the 3-D model are shown below.
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