Hydrographic Survey – Page 50

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    NMA's Visitor Friendly ROVs

    2006-11-01T18:07:00Z

    Atlantas Marine of Yeovil UK has supplied two of its VideoRay Pro lll ROVs to the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth. Equipped with Tritech sonars and manipulators, both are now a major feature in the NMAs ExplorOcean water tank where visitors are able to race them against other mini-ROVs over ...

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    Offshore Survey 07

    2006-11-01T18:07:00Z

    Its joint organisers, Intelligent Exhibitions and TMS International, say that speakers will be drawn from leading international oil and gas organisations as well as global contractors and service providers along with government and academic institutions.

  • The new UK National Hydrographer, Rear Admiral Ian Mobcrieff, who has also been appointed Deputy Chief Executive of the Hydrographic Office in Taunton.
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    New UK Hydrographer

    2006-10-01T18:07:00Z

    new Chief Executive of the UKHO, he will be responsible for the organisation''s key role within the world hydrographic community while also overseeing the Government''s own responsibilities for the Maritime & Coastguard Agency under the UN Convention of Safety of Life at Sea.

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    Headline: Spain Extends Multibeam Capabilities

    2006-10-01T18:07:00Z

    The new system utilises CHIRP technology to obtain extended survey coverage from shorelines to continental rises at depths down to 6,000m. It also provides high density signal processing in addition to increased numbers of soundings for improved resolution. By DAVID GOODFELLOW

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    Marimatech Boosts sounder Memory

    2006-10-01T18:07:00Z

    Danish survey and positioning systems specialist Marimatech has increased the data capacity of its widely used E-Sea Sound MP 35 series of dual channel echosounders with the addition of up to 8 GB storage via flash memory.

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    2006 Hydrographic Symposium

    2006-10-01T18:07:00Z

    Kris Peeters, Flemish Minister of Public Works, Energy, Environment & Nature, will formally open the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies'' 15th Biennial International Hydrographic Symposium in Antwerp, on Monday 6 November.

  • The comfortable and manoeuvrable RIB is well suited for marina surveys. Note the inboard transducer attached to the standard Leica Survey pole.PG
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    Marina Surveyors Stick to RIBs

    2006-10-01T18:07:00Z

    C & S Survey Solutions has successfully coupled the Ohmex range of echo sounders to the 1200 Series GPS System, and their existing range of robotic EDM''s. The company has been equipped with Leica GPS and traditional surveying equipment for several years. It approached to complete surveys that would include ...

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    Marine Measurement Forum

    2006-09-01T18:07:00Z

    Scheduled presentations include those by Intelligent Exhibitions (organisers of the three-day Ocean Business 2007 event in Southampton next March), CEFAS/BGS/Seasurvey, Axys Technologies/Planet Ocean, YSI Hydrodata, Aanderaa/RS Aqua, Sontek, OSIL, and MacArtney. The delegate registration fee is £35. Further details are available at www.mmf-uk.org>.By DAVID GOODFELLOW

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    Fugro Geos Ormen Lange Project

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Fugro Geos, which has provided measurement support services since 2001 for development of Ormen Lange, Norway''s largest gas field, due to come onstream next year, has been contracted by Norsk Hydro to provide all-important real-time current profile, wind and wave data for both the pipeline and the field itself.

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    Irish Marine Institute Opens New HQ

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    The Irish Marine Institute''s new headquarters at Oranmore, Galway Bay have been formally opened by Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Housing a majority of the Institute''s 200-strong staff, the 50m, 11,000m 2building features 54 scientific laboratories, a crescent-shaped office facility and a 150-seat auditorium specially designed for both national and international ...

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    Seismic Development

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Paris-based Compagnie GUnUrale de GUophysique (CGG) has announced that it is to acquire US competitor Veritas in a 2.4bn takeover that will create a giant in the supply of geophysical and seismic survey services to the worldwide oil and gas industry.

  • The Veripos LD2 integrated demodulator for refining GNSS positioning data, a number of which have been ordered by Russian survey company Romona.
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    Russian Contracts for Veripos

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Veripos in Aberdeen has been awarded two major contracts by Romona, the Russian survey company. The first is for supply of two LD2 integrated GNSS demodulator systems installed by Romona aboard its specialist survey vessel, Teknik Perdana, operating in the Sakhalin oil and gas sector in the Russian Far East ...

  • The contract required GTS Subsea to mobilise a 3m, high performance, electric vibrocorer as part of a cable route survey.
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    GTS Subsea Completes Coring Contract

    2006-09-01T00:00:00Z

    GTS Subsea, the Surrey and Somerset based independent site investigation business, has successfully completed its part of a cable route survey between Oban and Mull.

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    Australian Video Recorder Contract

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    NETmc Marine in Aberdeen reports an order worth more than US$100,000 for its range of digital video recorders from SureSpek of Western Australia, an inspection, maintenance and repair consultancy retained by Australia''s largest publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production concern, Woodside Petroleum.

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    Intelligent GPS Units

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    French company Cadden has launched a multipurpose system for synchronising data from differing sensors in UTC (Universal Time Clock) time and space with a facility for integrating high-precision GPS positioning, data acquisition and measurement functions.

  • Ocean Researcher is the third survey vessel Gardline has acquired in the past 18 months.
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    Gardline Continues Survey Fleet Expansion

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Great Yarmouth UK based Gardline Shipping continues its acquisitive fleet expansion programme with the successful purchase of RRS Charles Darwin. The 69m LOA vessel, renamed RV Ocean Researcher, follows RV Triton and MV Confidante as the third ship purchased by Gardline in the past 18 months. It was delivered in ...

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    Positioning & Surveying Courses

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    University of Nottingham''s Institute of Engineering Surveying & Space Geodesy (IESSG) says it has funding available to support UK and EU students on MSc courses in satellite positioning and navigation technology as well as geodetic surveying.

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    Thales Navigation Takeover

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    GPS equipment specialist Thales Navigation, whose European headquarters are in Carquefou, France, has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Shah Capital Partners (SCP), a private equity consortium based in Santa Clara, California.

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    Kongsberg Maritime Extends its Acoustic Range

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Kongsberg Maritime in Norway has extended its HiPAP series of acoustic positioning and underwater navigation systems with introduction of a portable 350P model which, it says, heralds a new era of positioning for vessels of opportunity.

  • New UKHO Chief Executive Mike Robinson.
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    BGS-UKHO Mapping Agreement

    2006-08-01T00:00:00Z

    The UK Hydrographic Office, whose new chief executive Mike Robinson assumed office last month (see inset), has signed an agreement with British Geological Survey for joint production of new digital seabed geological maps covering UK continental shelf regions.