Grounding of sea ice on high latitude continental shelves represents potential threat to maintenance of subsea industrial installations. SCOURBASE system created to store major parameters relevant to engineering design in comprehensive data base format.

"In 1990, the ESRF awarded a contract to Canadian Seabed Research Ltd. of Halifax to undertake a large repetitive mapping program in the Beaufort Sea. This program included: designing the survey network, carrying out the survey field work, identifying new scours on the geophysical records, and updating the data base of new scour events."--Introduction.

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