Hydrographic Survey

Hydrographic and oceanographic instrumentation specialist Valeport of Totnes in Devon UK has developed a new radar pulsed k-band radar level sensor designed to operate seamlessly with its TideMaster tidal logger, the VRS-20.

The Lithuanian Coastal Research & Planning Institute (CORPI) reports successful completion of the first ever total coverage survey of Klaipeda Harbour, one of the few ice-free ports in northernmost Europe.

Three five year contracts for work under its UK Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP) have been awarded by the Martitime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) to EGS, Gardline Geosurvey and MMT UK.

Estimated annual savings of around €150,000 due to more effective maintenance dredging surveys at Rotterdam, Europe’s largest port and the world’s tenth biggest container terminal, are partly attributable to use of upgraded…

Del Norte Technology in Doncaster UK, announced a three day Hypack workshop next month which will cover the US company’s widely used hydrographic software, comprising its Hypack, Hysweep and Dredgepack modules.

The latest phase of the hydrography part of the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODNet) commenced with a meeting in Lisbon last month hosted by the Portuguese Marine and Atmospheric Institute…

Major seabed and cable burial surveys for an un-named European wave energy test site are to be undertaken by the Submetrix division of Innovatum of Bury St Edmunds and Coastline Surveys of…

Unchartered wrecks including a 150m vessel at a depth of 22m have been recorded by the Royal Navy’s hydrographic ship, HMS Echo.

The UK Hydrographic Office plans this summer to supply on a single DVD its Admiralty Vector Chart Service (AVCS), with 12,000 digital charts.

Live tidal and weather tweets on Twitter from a dockside Tweet M8 tide gauge were among innovations featured by Ohmex at Seawork.

C-Nav, the US GNSS differential Precise Point Positioning organisation with European bases in Norway, Russia and the UK, has developed a real-time tidal measurement package, C-Tides.

Scholarships worth in total £17,500 are available for students embarking on University College London MSc courses on Surveying and Hydrographic Surveying, beginning this September.

The Hydrographic Society UK, which represents organisations and individuals of the domestic hydrographic profession and associated disciplines in addition to maintaining an extensive overseas membership in nearly 50 countries, has elected 15…