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Hence, this study explores the impact of the number and distributions of ship soundings on topographic prediction using the gravity\u2013geologic method (GGM) and an analytical algorithm. Firstly, this study investigates the influence of ship sounding coverage on the two algorithms. The simulation results demonstrate that increasing coverage from 5.40% to 31.80%, coupled with more uniform distributions across the study area, substantially reduces the RMS error of the GGM. Specifically, the RMS error decreases from 238.68 m to 42.90 m, an improvement of 82.03%. The analytical algorithm maintains a consistent RMS error of 40.39 m because it does not depend on ship soundings. Furthermore, we select a 1\u00b0 \u00d7 1\u00b0 sea area (134.8\u00b0\u2013135.8\u00b0E, 30.0\u00b0\u201331.0\u00b0N), and the ship soundings are divided into two control groups, Part I and Part II, with coverages of 8.19% and 33.19%, respectively. When Part II is used for calculation, the RMS error of the GGM decreases from 204.17 m to 126.95 m compared to when Part I is used, while the analytical algorithm exhibits an RMS error of 167.94 m. The findings indicate that the prediction accuracy of the GGM is significantly affected by ship soundings, whereas the analytical algorithm is more stable and independent of ship soundings. Based on simulation experiments and realistic examples, when the effective ship soundings coverage exceeds 30%, the GGM may have more advantages. Conversely, the analytical algorithm may be better. This suggests that effectively combining and utilizing different algorithms based on the ship sounding coverage can improve the accuracy of topographic prediction. This will provide a basis for integrating multiple algorithms to construct a global seafloor topography model.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16173154","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,27]],"date-time":"2024-08-27T03:51:06Z","timestamp":1724730666000},"page":"3154","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Comparative Study of Seafloor Topography Prediction from Gravity\u2013Geologic Method and Analytical Algorithm"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0005-2819-7313","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuwei","family":"Tian","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics, College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8476-2712","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Huan","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics, College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jinhai","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics, College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4624-1489","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qiuyu","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics, College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9579-1217","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yongjun","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Satellite Ocean Application Service, Beijing 100081, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xin","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Naval Research Institute, Tianjin 300061, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"331","DOI":"10.1002\/2015EA000107","article-title":"A New Digital Bathymetric Model of the World\u2019s Oceans","volume":"2","author":"Weatherall","year":"2015","journal-title":"Earth Space Sci."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1049","DOI":"10.1016\/j.crte.2006.05.014","article-title":"Bathymetry from Space: Rationale and Requirements for a New, High-Resolution Altimetric Mission","volume":"338","author":"Sandwell","year":"2006","journal-title":"Comptes Rendus. 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