Scientist Create Detailed Map of Titanic Site
Rhonda Moniz
March 21, 2012
Recently a team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute created a detailed map of the wreck site of the RMS Titanic. The map was created with 130,000 photos stitched together to create a photomosaic. Remotely Operated Vehicles fitted with still cameras were used to create the mosaic. Because light does not travel far in the pitch-black depths of the deep ocean environment, cameras are installed on ROV systems and then placed close to the subject area. Because of the close proximity to the subject only small areas can be captured in the stills. Cameras are fitted to the ROV and a series of overlapping images of the same area are then combined along their common edges in order to create a much larger image.