Hydrographic Survey

Global offshore positioning specialist Veripos of Aberdeen UK has introduced a new inertially aided solution for dynamically positioned vessels.

French shipyard H2X in Ciotat, near Marseille, reports that it is to build a 43m monohull survey vessel for an un-named Saudi Arabian university specialising in hydrographic and oceanographic studies.

Fugro has completed data acquisition and processing of the entire United States West Coast under a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in support of their National Coastal Mapping…

Scientists at HR Wallingford in the UK have received research funding for a pilot project aimed at investigating the measurement of cohesive sediment properties using high frequency underwater acoustics.

Abstracts or proposals for 15-20 minute presentations on any aspect of marine measurement technology are invited by The Hydrographic Society UK as hosts of the 51st Marine Measurement Forum (MMF) in Southampton…

Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) of Norway, which maintains a fleet of 14 offshore seismic survey vessels supported by 21 data processing centres, has been selected by Greece’s Energy Ministry to conduct preliminary research…

President of the International Hydrographic Organization, Captain Robert Ward is to provide the opening address at the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies’ 17th European conference in Rotterdam from 13-15 November.

Marine environmental data management and publishing specialists OceanWise of Hampshire UK have launched a series of off the shelf marine mapping datasets claimed to meet the most demanding applications.

WASSP of Auckland plans a first European showing of its new WASSP S multibeam sounder at the Hydro 12 international hydrographic symposium in Rotterdam this November.

Oslo based Dolphin Geophysical is to carry out new 3D multi-client surveys offshore Lebanon using its high capacity seismic vessel, Polar Duke. Beginning this September, project coverage comprises an area of around…

L-3 ELAC Nautik of Kiel has been commissioned to deliver and install a SeaBeam 1180 shallow water multibeam system aboard Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar & Marine Research’s new 21m vessel being…

Great Yarmouth UK based Gardline Geosciences, in association with GEO of Denmark, has been awarded contracts worth €18 million by Spanish combine Iberdrola under which it will carry out preliminary geological surveys…

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) at Southampton is to head two projects collectively worth £720,000 for investigating use of robot submarines.

Remote sensing specialist Terra Imaging, which has bases in France, Germany and Holland, reports successful airborne mapping of the entire Maltese archipelago from ocean floor to church spires.