Hydrographic Survey

Meridian Chartware of Norwich, a subsidiary of Norcom Technology, is developing an electronic chart training package and a low cost entry electronic chart plotter in a project also involving the UK Hydrographic…

Great Yarmouth-based Gardline Hydro has begun a two-year Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP) to survey western approaches to the English Channel on behalf of the government body responsible for safety of navigation in…

Packaging and distribution of electronic navigational charts are to be further standardised following a recent workshop sponsored by ChartWorld inHamburg attended by ECDIS manufacturers, ENC retailers and representatives of the International Hydrographic…

The International Centre for Electronic Nautical Charts (ENCs) has established a new, improved catalogue on its website (www. ic-enc. org) which displays not only ENCs within its database, but also the latest…

Imperial College London is convening three short courses on technical developments in underwater acoustics, from fundamentals to applications, from 6-10 September.

Technical and project management specialists Metoc of Liphook has strengthened its portfolio of marine and coastal data services with the acquisition of Compass Data Systems , also in Hampshire, which is a…

A new Anglo-Swedish joint venture which will help shape the future of tomorrows survey technology, Admiralty Coastal Surveys , was officially launched by the UKHydrographic Office at last months Oceanology International event…

QinetiQ has announced the worlds first commercially available towed synthetic aperture sonar with integrated interferometric profiler, GeoSAS , which is to be marketed by GeoAcoustics (UK) of Great Yarmouth.

Proceedings of its UK Branch Scottish Regions recent seminar on Digital Video for Offshore Survey & Inspection , held in association with the Society for Underwater Technology , are now available on…

Guernsey-based Marine Electronics reports Chinese and US orders for new titanium and aluminium versions of its Dolphin 6201 Obstacle Avoidance Sonar designed for navigation and pilotage of AUVs and ROVS.

Kongsberg-Simrad has received an order for a second EM 300 deepwater multibeam echosounder from Fugro Survey of Aberdeen. It is being installed on the survey vessel, Fugro Meridian and will complement a…

Supported by EU funding, Euroseismic is a new central meta-database for geophysical data derived from marine seismic surveys for European seas which is now available on the internet www. eu-seased. net Based…

Octopus iHeave , a new processing suite for long-period ocean swell compensation, is available from Coda Octopus of Deddington for free integration with its Octopus F180 precision attitude and positioning system.

High-resolution swathe, sidescan sonar and magnetometer surveys in the Solent between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire have been successfully completed by Gardline Environmental on behalf of Southern Water and its consultants,…

French ROV specialists ECA of Toulon have announced development of a new 3,000m depth-rated system, the Alistar 3000. Designed for deepwater inspection tasks, it is claimed to offer operators greater flexibility and…