Mapping expeditions on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer provide a great real-world training opportunity for students interested in careers in ocean exploration. During NOAA Ocean Exploration's 2022 Puerto Rico Mapping and Deep-Sea Camera Demonstration, we have two explorers-in-training (and some former explorers-in-training!) helping us fill seafloor mapping gaps off Puerto Rico, in U.S. waters off the U.S. East Coast, and in the high seas. Paige Hoel is one of those explorers-in-training. Among her tasks is
Cleaning Multibeam Data
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Mapping expeditions on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer provide a great real-world training opportunity for students interested in careers in ocean exploration. During NOAA Ocean Exploration's 2022 Puerto Rico Mapping and Deep-Sea Camera Demonstration, we have two explorers-in-training (and some former explorers-in-training!) helping us fill seafloor mapping gaps off Puerto Rico, in U.S. waters off the U.S. East Coast, and in the high seas. Paige Hoel is one of those explorers-in-training. Among her tasks is "cleaning" multibeam sonar data to make sure they are correct, consistent, and usable.