ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many people contributed to the success of the cruise. Firstly, we wish to thank the Captain, Vincenzo Lavadera Lubrano, the first officer Ernesto Violetta, the Chief Engineer Pietro Ciano and the crew of R/V Urania for their great professionalism and big effort in assuring the success of the cruise. The project was funded by IGM-CNR, ICTE and the University of Bologna. We wish to thank also the Núcleo para a Prospecção e Exploração de Petróleo, Ministério da Economia, Dir. João Pacheco and Dra Teresinha Abecassis, to have made us available the TGS-NOPEC dataset in Lisbon; Juanjo Dañobeitia and the UGBO staff in Barcelona for their prompt reaction to our help request; the Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada in San Fernando Cadiz, Dr. Jose Martin Davila, who kindly provided us the daily observations through mail, to perform the diurnal variation correction of magnetic anomalies; the Divestco Inc. for their WinPics demo and the Seismic Micro-Technology Inc. for the Kingdom Suite+ demonstration package.