Hydrographic Survey – Page 14
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Norwegian Mareano project for Finnish company
The Norwegian Hydrographic Service, a division of the Norwegian Mapping Authority, has commissioned the Finnish state-owned organisation Meritaito to carry out its annual Mareano bathymetric surveying project designed to provide sufficient knowledge for ecosystem-based management of domestic coastal and ocean areas while promoting knowledge-based sustainable exploitation of ocean resources.
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€15m Adriatic survey contract for Next Geosolutions
Next Geosolutions, the Anglo-Italian turnkey geoscience and engineering combine with bases in London and Naples, has been awarded a €15m contract by Prysmian Group for survey work in the Adriatic Sea as part of the Monita 500kV power cable project linking Montenegro and Italy.
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World Hydrography Day
‘Our Seas and Waterways - Yet to be Chartered and Explored’ is the theme selected by the International Hydrographic Organization as the focal point for this year’s UN-sponsored World Hydrography Day on 21 June.
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Valeport Indonesian success
Valeport in Devon, UK, has reported a multiple delivery of 31 TideMaster tide gauges, 14 mini-SVS sound velocity sensors and a similar quantity of its miniSVP sound velocity profilers to the Indonesian Directorate General of Sea Transportation (HUBLA) in a venture carried out in association with South East Asian distributors, ...
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New iXBlue developments
iXBlue has launched Rovins Nano, a new compact inertial navigation system which the French company says will revolutionise ROV navigation. Based on the company’s widely-adopted fibre optic technology, it is designed for ROV pilots carrying out maintenance and construction operations and is claimed to provide unrivalled stability and accuracy ...
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Geo Plus expands in Middle East
Dutch survey organisation Geo Plus BV of Scheemda has expanded operations with establishment of a secondary base in the UAE to support its Middle East and North Africa operations.
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NewsRemote survey platform trials completed
UK-based Bibby HydroMap announced at last month’s Oceanology International event in London successful completion of trials of its newly-developed Dynamic Remotely-Operated Survey Platform (d’ROP) assembly designed for remote surveying in challenging environments considered too taxing for inspection-class ROVs.
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SUT Conference
The Society for Underwater Technology, which has members in over 40 countries, is to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a three-day conference at London’s ExCel Centre on The Future of Underwater Technology, from 15-17 November.
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NewsiSurvey positioning support agreements
iSurvey, the Norwegian offshore support group with subsidiary bases in Aberdeen and Singapore, has been awarded a multi-year frame agreement with Nexans Norway AS covering provision of navigation, positioning and survey services for cable lay operations aboard its specialist support vessel, ‘Nexans Skagerrak’.
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Applied Acoustics down under contract
Great Yarmouth, UK-based Applied Acoustic Engineering (AAE) has recorded the 450th sale of its USBL (Ultra Short Baseline) range of acoustic positioning systems with supply of a Nexus model to Neptune Marine Services in Perth, one of Australia’s leading exponents of integrated offshore engineering solutions.
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Sub-bottom profilers for Chinese research institutes
Two leading research institutes belonging to the government-owned China Geological Survey organisation in Beijing, GMGS and QIMG, are being equipped with Teledyne Reson ParaSound P70 sub-bottom profilers capable of penetrating seabeds at more than 200m in water depths as deep as 11,000m.
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Rijkswaterstaat orders inland water multibeam systems
IGA, the specialist department of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment’s Rijkswaterstaat organisation responsible for surveying 5472 km of inland waterways throughout the Netherlands, has commissioned five Kongsberg Maritime EM 2040C high-resolution shallow water multibeam systems as the mainstay for future operations aboard its fleet of vessels.
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NewsNew Marine Electronics sonar developments
Guernsey-based sonar specialists Marine Electronics in the Channel Islands, which recently delivered an advanced 3D profiling system for short range bathymetry to the Korean Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST) in Ansan, has developed a new Dolphin 2D system designed mainly for small AUVs and ROVs.
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NewsMultinational Fugro
Fugro’s multinational operations continue apace with award of a combined geophysical and geotechnical contract by Hess Exploration for seabed mapping in North West Australia involving use of a Hugin 1000 AUV.
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Bay of Bothnia mapping
Swedish hydrographic organisation Clinton Marine Survey of Malmo reports successful completion of large-scale mapping of Finnish sectors of the Bay of Bothnia involving multibeam surveys covering 1,311 square km at depths of between 5.5m and 95m.
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French connection for IFHS
The Association Francophone d’Hydrographie (AFHy), which represents the worldwide interests of private and public stakeholders in hydrography throughout French-speaking countries, has been elected a member of the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS) whose other member organisations include those in Australasia, Benelux, Denmark, Germany, Italy, South Africa, South Korea and ...
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NewsRecord-breaking Oceanology International
Now in its 47th year, this customary three-day biennial event at London’s ExCel exhibition and conference centre from 15-17 March will once more provide an essential forum for the global oceanographic industries
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Hydro 2016 set for Germany
Abstracts of papers for presentation at the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies’ (IFHS) 24th symposium and exhibition to be held in Rostock-Warnemunde from 8-10 November are now required by organisers of the major three-day event, The German Hydrographic Society (DHyG).
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Caris database for Swedish Hydrographic Office
The Swedish Hydrographic Office, part of the governmental Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA) in Norrköping, has commissioned a Caris Hydrographic Production Database (HPD) as its basic system for current and future management of spatial data as well as efficient production of paper and electronic charts.
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Kongsberg extends HiPaP range of positioning systems
Norway’s Kongsberg Maritime has extended its HiPaP range of widely adopted high precision acoustic positioning and navigation systems with introduction of what it calls a new third-generation model, HiPaP 502.
