The Amundsen is one of the rare ships the coast guard operates that has a multibeam scanner, so wherever it goes, it collects 3-D colour information on the bottom of the ocean. So everywhere the Amundsen goes, we collect that multibeam information. We pass it on to the hydrographic services that will use it to modernize the maps. The Amundsen covers a lot of territory in the Arctic, from Hudson Bay all the way to the western Arctic, so that's one of the benefits.
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