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The new Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of the Brazilian Continental Margin: detailed morphology and revised undersea feature names

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This paper presents a new Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of the Brazilian Continental Margin and provides a description of the main morphologic undersea features with updated nomenclature. The improved Brazilian DTM was developed with an extensive and integrated bathymetric dataset, composed by various sources, which were verified and qualified. A cross-over error analysis between all bathymetric data was done and the final bathymetric grid was created from a minimum curvature interpolating surface with established 2500-m grid cell size. The new DTM supports the Brazilian Submission to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS 1983) and represents the official seabed morphology of the Brazilian Continental Margin and its undersea feature names.

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  1. Data from the SRTM30_PLUS (SRTM 2013) derived from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).

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Acknowledgments

Authors specially thank the Brazilian Continental Shelf Survey Program (LEPLAC) for permission to use all bathymetric dataset. We also thank the Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation (DHN); Petróleo Brasileiro S.A (PETROBRAS); Brazilian National Agency of Oil, Gas and Biocombustibles (ANP); and Geological Survey of Brazil (CPRM) for supplying single- and multi-beam bathymetric data, which improve considerably the Brazilian DTM quality.

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  1. LEPLAC—Continental Shelf Program, DHN—Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation-Brazilian Navy, Barao de Jaceguay, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, 24040000, Brazil

    A. A. L. Alberoni, I. K. Jeck, C. G. Silva & L. C. Torres

  2. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Av. Litorânea, s/n, Boa Viagem, Niterói, RJ, 24.210-346, Brazil

    C. G. Silva

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Alberoni, A.A.L., Jeck, I.K., Silva, C.G. et al. The new Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of the Brazilian Continental Margin: detailed morphology and revised undersea feature names. Geo-Mar Lett 40, 949–964 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00367-019-00606-x

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