Hydrographic Survey

The UK Hydrographic Office has introduced a new digital application enabling mariners from around the world to submit hydrographic data direct to its Taunton headquarters using a mobile device.

Fugro has provided a third company vessel, ‘Fugro Supporter’, to carry out underwater search operations in the southern Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft which disappeared last March with the…

This year’s IMarEST (The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology) Stanley Gray Lecture will focus on the technologies being used in the search for Malaysian Airways Flight MH370.

Proceedings of Hydro14, the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies’ 22nd conference held in Aberdeen in November under the auspices of The Hydrographic Society UK, are now generally available in a fully-illustrated 220-page…

Stickers Gap, a new purpose-designed survey vessel built by Dutch-based No Limit Ships of Groningen, has begun service with the Federal German Waterways & Shipping Board (WSA).

UK-based MarineFind and EOMAP of Seefeld, Germany have established a partnership to provide easy access to coastal high-resolution and global bathymetry using new methods for distributing data for pre-processed areas while permitting…

Using previously untapped data from European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA satellites, scientists have created a new map of the world’s seafloor to provide a detailed illustration of the structures that make…

Atlas North America LLC. (ANA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlas Elektronik GmbH, Germany, has acquired the business of Marine Sonic Technology (MSTL), Ltd., based in Yorktown, Virginia, USA, via an asset…

The UK Hydrographic Office has launched what it calls the Admiralty ENC Maintenance Record (NP 133C), designed to streamline management of paper records of Electronic Nautical Charts (ENC) and ECDIS maintenance aboard…

MMT of Sweden reports it is presently completing detailed route survey operations for the planned Monita 119km subsea cable installation in the Mediterranean linking Italy and Montenegro. Work is being carried out…

Dutch software specialists QPL of Zeist have announced plans to introduce early next year a new multibeam bathymetric processing suite providing a dynamic and guided processing workflow, Qimera.

The London-based Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology (IMarEST), which has a worldwide membership of more than 15,000 individuals in over 100 countries, has acquired Plymouth University’s Hydrographic Academy now known…