Hydrographic Survey

Chesapeake Technology has added a new gridding engine to its widely-adopted SonarWiz software, enabling users to visualise in real-time vast amounts of bathymetry, sub-bottom and sidescan data in one place at one…

Norway has announced plans to spend Kr 173m (£13.7m) on seismic surveys in its sector of the Barents Sea. Petroleum & Energy Minister Tord Lien says the government believes there are substantial…

The UK Hydrographic Office and the Maritime Coastguard Agency, joint organisers of the 7th biennial shallow water survey conference involving detailed assessments of a common dataset derived from testing of individual multibeam…

Developing sustainable hydrography in Africa and elsewhere is one of the principal themes of the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies 23rd Hydro conference at Cape Towns International Convention Centre from 23-25 November.

Bibby HydroMap, the UK-based hydrographic and land survey organisation, reports successful completion of major surveys for the €30m Swedish-owned Deep Green tidal current marine energy project offshore Holyhead, west of Anglesey, UK.

Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute, the Helmholtz Centre for Polar & Marine Research (AWI) and Dresden Technical University’s Instititute for Cartography have jointly produced a 3D map of the Antarctic continent and the…

DeepOcean, the Norwegian offshore services organisation with subsidiary concerns in Brazil, Holland, Mexico, Singapore and the UK, has been commissioned by Shell for provision of ROV-based survey services in the North Sea…

The Offshore Survey Division of the International Marine Contractors Asssociation, the UK-based trade organisation representing over 1,000 companies in more than 60 countries, has revised its Guidelines for Use of Multibeam Echosounders…

Geological Assistance & Services (GAS) of Bologna, one of Italy’s leading survey and positioning organisations, has been awarded a long-term contract by oil and gas contractor Saipem for supply of services during…

Fugro, the Dutch survey conglomerate with 13,500 employees in over 70 countries, is to extend its integrated hydrographic, geophysical and satellite imaging capabilities under a teaming agreement with EOMAP of Munich, which…

Hampshire UK-based ECDIS Ltd is to provide Swire Pacific Offshore of Singapore with in-house training courses over a two-year period.

German subsea equipment specialist Innomar Technologie of Rostock, is to hold its seventh biennial workshop on Seabed Acoustics from 19-20 November at the local Hotel Neptun. The two-day English language event will…

Hamburg’s Elb-Panorama Penthouse overlooking the City’s harbour is the venue for the first-ever World ECDIS Day on 16 September. More than 300 marine electronic navigation stakeholders are likely to be present at…