Hydrographic Survey

Its joint organisers, Intelligent Exhibitions and TMS International, say that speakers will be drawn from leading international oil and gas organisations as well as global contractors and service providers along with government…

The new system utilises CHIRP technology to obtain extended survey coverage from shorelines to continental rises at depths down to 6,000m. It also provides high density signal processing in addition to increased…

Danish survey and positioning systems specialist Marimatech has increased the data capacity of its widely used E-Sea Sound MP 35 series of dual channel echosounders with the addition of up to 8…

Kris Peeters,Flemish Minister of Public Works, Energy, Environment & Nature, willformally open the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies 15thBiennial International Hydrographic Symposium in Antwerp, on Monday 6November.

Scheduled presentations include those by Intelligent Exhibitions (organisers of the three-day Ocean Business 2007 event in Southampton next March), CEFAS/BGS/Seasurvey, Axys Technologies/Planet Ocean, YSI Hydrodata, Aanderaa/RS Aqua, Sontek, OSIL, and MacArtney. The…

Fugro Geos, which has provided measurement support services since 2001 for development of Ormen Lange, Norways largest gas field, due to come onstream next year, has been contracted by Norsk Hydro to…

The Irish Marine Institutes new headquarters at Oranmore, Galway Bay have been formally opened by Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Housing a majority of the Institutes 200-strong staff, the 50m, 11,000m 2building features…

Paris-based Compagnie GUnUrale de GUophysique (CGG) has announced that it is to acquire US competitor Veritas in a 2.4bn takeover that will create a giant in the supply of geophysical and seismic…

NETmc Marine in Aberdeen reports an order worth more than US$100,000 for its range of digital video recorders from SureSpek of Western Australia, an inspection, maintenance and repair consultancy retained by Australias…

French company Cadden has launched a multipurpose system for synchronising data from differing sensors in UTC (Universal Time Clock) time and space with a facility for integrating high-precision GPS positioning, data acquisition…

University of Nottinghams Institute of Engineering Surveying & Space Geodesy (IESSG) says it has funding available to support UK and EU students on MSc courses in satellite positioning and navigation technology as…

GPS equipment specialist Thales Navigation, whose European headquarters are in Carquefou, France, has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Shah Capital Partners (SCP), a private equity consortium based in Santa Clara,…

Kongsberg Maritime in Norway has extended its HiPAP series of acoustic positioning and underwater navigation systems with introduction of a portable 350P model which, it says, heralds a new era of positioning…

London based Clarkson Research Services has published an updated sixth edition of its Survey Vessels of the World register detailing 153 coastal and deepwater hydrographic survey vessels, 174 for seismic survey and…