Application of SeaXerocks on habitat mapping for the deep-sea megabenthos around cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts in Arnold Guyot of the northwestern Pacific – from the perspective of “whale’s eye view”
Akira Iguchi1, Ryuichi Miwa2, Tetsu Koike2, Masahiro Ohhara2, Hideki Sugishima3, Hiroyuki Yokooka4, Tatsuo Fukuhara5, Masahiro Suzumura6, Ayumi Tsukasaki6, Yuichiro Tanaka1, Nozomu Iwasaki7, Blair Thornton8, Takeshi Fujii5, Shogo Kato9, Yoshiaki Igarashi9, Nobuyuki Okamoto9 and Atsushi Suzuki10, (1)National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Kaiyo Engineering Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, (3)IDEA Co., Ltd., Yaizu, Japan, (4)IDEA Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, (5)KANSO Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, (6)AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, (7)Rissho University, Kumagaya, Japan, (8)Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (9)Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), Tokyo, Japan, (10)AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
