London, 12 November 2025 – The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project has announced a new partnership with Raymarine – a leader in high-performance marine electronics – at the recent Ocean Floor Explore symposium hosted by Map the Gaps and COAST in Victoria, Canada. Ocean Floor Explore brings together industry, technology and philanthropy to share knowledge, form new collaborations, and explore ways of advancing our understanding of the ocean floor.
Headquartered in Portsmouth, UK, Raymarine is a part of Teledyne FLIR and a leading developer of marine electronics, offering a range of systems for both recreational boating and light commercial marine applications. The company’s portfolio includes radar, autopilots, GPS, instruments, fishfinders, communications and fully integrated navigation solutions.
Seabed 2030 is a collaborative project between The Nippon Foundation and the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO), which seeks to inspire the complete mapping of the world’s ocean by 2030, and to compile all the data into the freely available GEBCO Ocean Map. The Project is formally endorsed as a Decade Action of the UN Ocean Decade. GEBCO is a joint programme of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), and is the only organisation with a mandate to map the entire ocean floor.
As part of this collaboration, Raymarine is contributing a unique dataset of crowdsourced bathymetric recordings collected from thousands of vessels equipped with Raymarine sonar systems. This data, gathered from real-world usage across the globe, will enhance the resolution and coverage of existing seafloor maps, particularly in under-surveyed coastal and offshore regions.
“We’re proud to support Seabed 2030 in its mission to accelerate the complete mapping of the world’s oceans,” said Grégoire Outters, General Manager at Raymarine. “This collaboration reflects our commitment to safer navigation, better science, and a more sustainable future for the maritime industry.”
“Raymarine’s contribution of crowdsourced bathymetric data is a powerful example of how industry can accelerate our understanding of the ocean floor,” said Jamie McMichael-Phillips, Director of the Seabed 2030 Project. “We welcome their support and look forward to the impact this data will have on our global mapping efforts.”
All data collected and shared with the Seabed 2030 project is included in the free and publicly available GEBCO global grid.
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