In essence, after smoothing procedures were applied to each bathymetric profile, several extreme gradients in the bottom slope were identified, and the maximum gradient was taken as the position of the FCS on a given profile.
本质上而言，在对每一个测深剖面图进行抛光程序后，就确定了底面斜坡的数处坡度极值，取最大坡度为特定剖面图上大陆坡脚的位置。