Hydrographic Survey

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HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Proclaiming the familiar lament that there’s more and better high-resolution mapping of Venus and Mars than there is of Earth’s deep oceans, Prince Albert II of Monaco, a noted marine science devotee,…

22nd May 2017

Regal opening for IHO Assembly in Monaco

22nd May 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Mapping Our Seas, Oceans & Waterways - More Important Than Ever is the theme of this year’s UN-sponsored World Hydrography Day due to be marked worldwide on and around 21 June.

24th April 2017

World Hydrography Day

24th April 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), one of Germany’s leading terminals accustomed to conducting around 900 surveys per year, has acquired a third dual head multibeam echosounder for installation aboard its smallest of three…

24th April 2017

Third multibeam assembly for Hamburg Port

24th April 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Norway’s iSurvey group is to carry out survey and positioning operations under a four-year contract with Maersk Oil in support of rig move operations in the Danish sector of the North Sea.

24th April 2017

Danish venture for iSurvey

24th April 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Sweden’s MMT UK subsidiary in Banbury, Oxford reports two current major surveys in the Shetlands on behalf of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency. The first involves a 45-day undertaking from Yell to…

24th April 2017

MMT Shetland surveys

24th April 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

One such key contract disclosed at Southampton concerned award of two multi-million Euro undertakings to the Anglo-Italian geoscience and engineering group Next Geosolutions for work on the North Sea Link (NSL) project,…

24th April 2017

Multi-Million euro contract for Next Geosolutions

24th April 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Despite present offshore concerns, the Paris-based semi-autonomous OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) reckons the global ocean economy will double from $1.5 trillion to $3 trillion by 2030, so few were…

24th April 2017

Record Ocean Business ‘17

24th April 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Subsea Technology & Rentals Ltd (STR); global specialists in the design, production and rental of advanced subsea technology for the offshore industry announced at this year’s Ocean Business Exhibition the purchase of…

5th April 2017

Multibeam purchase

5th April 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The Hydrographic Society UK, which has an extensive individual and corporate membership at home and abroad in nearly 45 countries, is to host the 59th non-profit Marine Measurement Forum covering key issues…

24th March 2017

MMF Forum

24th March 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Reports from Beijing indicate that the Chinese government’s Aerospace Science & Technology Corporation is schedued to launch this July its upgraded BeiDou-3 satnav positioning system with progressive deployment of 6-8 geostationary satellites…

24th March 2017

Latest satnav developments

24th March 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

DutchWorkboats in Amsterdam, specialist designers and constructors of all-purpose craft of between 5 and 15 metres, has developed a Series 10 joint dive-survey model for inshore and coastal operations which can also…

24th March 2017

New Dutch dive survey craft

24th March 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The Aberdeen, UK-based division of Norway’s Oslo-based iSurvey global survey and positioning organisation has been awarded a three-year contract for provision of hydrographic and rig positioning services to Shell UK, Shell NAM,…

24th March 2017

iSurvey offshore contracts

24th March 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Autonomous vessel technology developer, ASV Global, will demonstrate its C-Worker 5 Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) at the Ocean Business exhibition in Southampton from 4 to 6 April 2017.

1st March 2017

ASV demo at Ocean Business

1st March 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Denmark’s Teledyne RESON A/S has announced a new series of SeaBat and Teledyne PDS training courses.

22nd February 2017

Teledyne RESON and Teledyne PDS open courses

22nd February 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Dutch subsea survey major Fugro has announced a partnership with the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE to support first round testing of the global, three-year competition, which incentivises development of rapid, unmanned and…

22nd February 2017

XPRIZE partnership

22nd February 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

UK-based ROV survey start-up company Rovco has taken its firsts steps into international waters and made significant progress towards growing its global footprint following the completion of two subsea survey contracts in…

22nd February 2017

Rovco dives into international waters

22nd February 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

The inter-governmental International Hydrographic Organization in Monaco is to hold its next general assembly at the local Auditorium Rainer III from 24-28 April.

22nd February 2017

IHO Assembly

22nd February 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Innova, the specialist Norwegian subsea engineering and technology organisation, has commissioned Sonardyne combined Sprint Inertial Navigation Systems and Syrinx Doppler Velocity Logs for two new ROVs being built by IKM Technology of…

22nd February 2017

Sonardyne INS for Norway & Ghana

22nd February 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Among latest additions to growing worldwide development of self-sufficient USVs and AUVs is EchoBoat-G2 developed by California-based Seafloor Systems which the US company says will be available for distribution in Europe via…

22nd February 2017

USV development

22nd February 2017

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY

Currently under construction by German shipyard Fassmer Werft in Berne is ‘Atair’, the world’s first ocean-going public service vessel with dual fuel LNG drive destined for survey, wreck location and research operations…

22nd February 2017

New BSH vessel

22nd February 2017