Hydrographic Survey

Sonardyne International’s custom-built Brazilian subsidiary in Rio das Ostras in Macae has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Guidance Marine, Leicester UK-based global developers of position reference systems for offshore DP applications,…

Leading GNSS offshore positioning specialist Veripos in Aberdeen, UK reports an extension to its widely-used Apex service with introduction of Apex 5 which is said to be capable of securing observations from…

‘KRI 934 Spica’, the second of two 60-metre hydrographic and oceanographic vessels designed and built by Ocea in France, has been handed over to the Indonesian Navy’s hydrographic service following a formal…

The Canadian Hydrographic Service, one of the world’s foremost national survey authorities as part of the governmental Department of Fisheries & Oceans, has awarded Fugro of the Netherlands a supply arrangement contract…

The world’s only conference on Oceanographic Survey Vessels convened for naval, national hydrographic office and coast guard audiences is to be held at the Kensington Close Hotel, London from 7-9 June.

Teledyne Technologies, the ever-acquisitive US conglomerate, has announced a proposed outright purchase of CARIS of New Brunswick, Canada, one of the world’s foremost developers of geospatial software designed for the hydrographic and…

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…

‘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…

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…

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…

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.

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,…

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…

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…