Abstract

RODRIGUEZ MORAN, OSVALDO. DETECTION OF THE CONTINENTAL FOOT OF SLOPE FROM A DIGITAL BATHIMETRIC MODEL. CONTINENTAL SHELF EXTENDED OF CUBA. GULF OF MEXICO. Bol. cienc. tierra [online]. 2011, n.30, pp.65-76. ISSN 0120-3630.

The Republic of Cuba formalizes this submission to the Commission on the Limits of Continental Shelf with the aim for demonstrating the natural extension of its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles in the Gulf of Mexico, according to what is established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The Republic of Cuba demonstrates the natural extension of its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles only in the high seas area in Eastern Gulf of Mexico (hereinafter Eastern Sector of the Gulf of Mexico or Eastern Sector), defined by the external limits of the economic exclusive zones of the Republic of Cuba (Cuba), the United Mexican States (Mexico) and the United States of America (United States). In the Eastern Sector of the Gulf of Mexico, the maritime boundaries of the above mentioned countries have not been delimited up to the present time. The detection of the Continental Foot of Slope (FOS) is a primordial objective to carry out the Presentation for the Cuban staff. The detection of the Continental Foot of Slope should show consequently in the application from a series of mathematical transformations (bi-dimensional filters) to the Bathymetric Digital Model (BDM) in the area of interest. This paper shows the application from these mathematical transformations to BDM and the regularity of its results is evaluated, by this way was gotten the space position of the Continental Foot of Slope in the Continental Shelf of Cuba. Finally, the coordinates of two frontiers are shown, whose limited space among them, will determine the existence of the space position of the Foot of slope of the Continental Shelf.

Keywords : Law of the sea; continental shelf; gulf of mexico; bathymetric digital model; Foot of slope; mathematical transformations..

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