In 1999 it was decided to create an international team of specialists and combine efforts and expertise to produce a new, more accurate bathymetric map of Lake Baikal. The aim was to re-compile the original sounding data that were used for the 1992 maps, to digitise them, to correct them using up-to-date, calibrated acoustic velocity information, to integrate them with as much as possible of the more recently acquired sounding data, and to produce a new, computer-generated, computer version of the Lake Baikal bathymetry map based on ALL available sounding data.
This project was funded by INTAS (International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union), and the present CD-Rom contains the final results of this project. The ISO image of the CD-ROM can be downloaded here.
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