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NewsThales Wins Contract to Support Veritas with SkyFix-XP
Thales GeoSolutions in Chessington has won a $2.7m two-year contract for provision of its SkyFix-XP satellite differential global positioning system (SDGPS) and SkyFix DGPS services to support Veritas Geophysical Corporation''s global fleet of seismic survey vessels operating from Houston, Crawley and Singapore.
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Finnish Navy Orders Fansweep 20 Multi-beam System
Bremen-based Atlas Hydrographic, which recently reported successful trials of its Parasound DS-2 parametric sub-bottom profiler aboard the Russian Academy of Sciences'' research vessel, Akademik Boris Petrov, en route to the Kara Sea near Murmansk, has been commissioned to supply the Finnish Naval Research Institute in Helsinki with a Fansweep 20 ...
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Free DGPS CD from Veritas
Elsewhere on the DGPS front, Veripos is offering Verichart, a free CD-based mapping facility for producing detailed charts of its proprietary Differential GPS HF and Inmarsat-delivered correction service networks for Africa, North West Europe, North and South America, Trinidad and Caspian and Mediterranean offshore areas.
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Metoc-Shell GIS Deal
Metoc of Liphook, Hampshire, has been awarded a five-year contract by Shell UK Expro in Aberdeen for supply of definitive marine data sets in a ready-to-use geographic information system (GIS).
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IHMC UK Completes Strategy Study for CHP
International Hydrographic Management Consulting (IHMC) has completed a study on a long-term strategy for the UK Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP) on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
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NewsThales-Sonsub 'Prestige' Contract
Thales GeoSolutions and Sonsub have been retained by Spanish oil company Repsol YPF to design and build ROVs for deepwater surveys and investigation of the Prestige oil tanker which sank 150 miles off the north west Spanish coast last November, occasioning widely-reported environmental damage and political arguments as to who ...
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Hydro4 Symposium
The Hydrographic Society , which is presently devolving into the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS), is to hold its 14th biennial international symposium in Galway, Ireland from 2-4 November 2004.
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US Charts on Demand
US company Ocean Grafix of Minnesota reports testing of a service that can provide instant paper charts using latest advances in digital print technology. It has begun tests at two locations in Louisiana in expectation of expanding the service if they are successful.
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Licences for MCA
The Maritime & Coastguard Agency , the UK''s national maritime administration responsible for promoting standards of safety at sea and protection of the marine environment, has acquired a series of licences for HIPS/SIPS, GIS and HOM from Canadian survey software specialists, CARIS .
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NewsEU-funded Project Studies Liquefaction Around Marine Structures
Researchers in a number of European countries are working together on an EU-funded project to determine the causes and potential solutions to a problem known as Liquefaction around Marine Structures (or LIMAS) that can affect a wide range of marine structures, potentially causing them to become unstable.
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Valeport Introduce New Tide Gauge
Instrumentation specialists Valeport of Totnes, Devon have introduced a new seabed-mounted tide recorder for hydrographic, oceanographic and marine civil engineering applications, Midas. Designed for precise water level measurements where conventional units attached to piers and jetties are not practicable, the system can also be used as part of an in-line ...
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2,000 Years of Hydrographic History Highlighted
As it Was, a collection of columns written and edited for Hydro International by former Hydrographer of the Navy and President of the International Hydrographic Organisation in Monaco, Rear Admiral Steve Ritchie, has been published as a book by GITC in the Netherlands.
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NewsSpecial Offers From Sonardyne
Sonardyne International of Yateley, which recently announced selection of its Fusion USBL acoustic positioning systems for two new Dutch Navy survey vessels, is now offering what it calls significant cost savings on its range of acoustic release transponders and associated surface equipment already in service with, among others, CGG, Fugro ...
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Emu Thames Survey
Emu of Durley, Southampton reports successful completion of a study on behalf of the Port of London Authority to provide comparative data for a maintenance dredging project in the Princes Channel on the southern side of the Thames Estuary.
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New Metoc-UKHO Data Service Launched
SeaZone , a collaborative venture between the UK Hydrographic Office and Metoc of Liphook, Hampshire, was formally launched at a seminar on marine and coastal geographical information systems attended by 140 delegates in London last month. Designed for GIS users, it provides a packaged data set formatted and ready to ...
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NewsAndrews Vessel Attracts seawork Visitors
Strilbas, Andrews Survey ''s new 55m vessel converted from a former offshore supply boat by Sea Boston , predictably drew a steady stream of visitors during its berthing at seawork2003 .
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Estuary Studies Completed
A 15-month study of tidal, fluvial and sedimentary processes and ecological mapping of the Lune estuary and eastern shores of Morecambe Bay has recently been completed by Hydrosurveys of Kenilworth, Warwickshire on behalf of Lancaster City Council .
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Humber Work Boats Branches Out
Marine and dredging specialists Humber Work Boats of Grimsby are now offering a hydrographic capability for northern Europe.
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Veripos DGPS Encryption
Veripos, a subsidiary of Aberdeen-based Subsea 7, is nearing completion of a programme aimed at safeguarding the rights and privileges of users of its European HF Differential GPS network by encrypting signals to prevent unauthorised access.
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NewsUS-Dutch AUV Begins Service
Echo Ranger, a new advanced unmanned autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for deepwater surveying jointly developed by Dutch-based Fugro NV and Boeing and Oceaneering International Inc of the US, has begun service for clients in the Gulf of Mexico.
