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3-Dimensional image of Monterey Canyon system, Pioneer and Guide Seamounts, andapproximately 9,000 square nautical miles of continental slope area. This imagewas derived from approximately 4,000,000 soundings acquired by the NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project. At the time this was made, it was the largestcomputer-generated 3-D view of the seafloor ever generated by multi-beam data.