Hydrographic Survey

The Institute of Engineering Survey & Space Geodesy at Nottingham University is offering a range of funding opportunities for its postgraduate degree, diploma and short courses for 2003-4.

Archival news from Liverpool Museum, which has inherited a century of global tidal records from Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory at Bidston (formerly the Liverpool Observatory & Tidal Institute).

Innovation 4C, a new European joint venture company which aims to be a technology hothouse for the marine industry according to its Chief Executive, Stuart Heaver, has been established with headquarters at…

The UK Hydrographic Office at Taunton has published the first of a series of five routeing charts with updated meteorological data, initially covering the Red Sea and Persian Gulf and a greater…

The British Geological Survey has released the first version of a vector-attributed digital bathymetry software covering UK and adjacent European waters, DigiBath 250.

The Electronic Chart: Functions, Potential & Limitations of a New Marine Navigation System is the title of a new specialist handbook from GITC of the Netherlands, publishers of the monthly Hydro International.

Of likely interest to shallow water surveying enthusiasts are proceedings of a Hydrographic Society Southern Region multibeam workshop in Reading last November, attended by over 100 specialists from all sectors of industry.

Simrad has introduced its GN33 B/W GPS Chart Navigator suitable for all sizes and types of commercial, fishing and coastal vessels. The company says it is the first GPS Navigator with an…

Romona Geosolutions, a joint venture offshoot of Chessington-based Thales GeoSolutions and its Russian partner, J/S Romona, reports successful completion of major shallow water bathymetric surveys off Sakhalin Island, adjacent to the Lunskoye…

WS EnviroTech of Selborne, Hampshire has delivered an advanced version of its U-Tow Mk 3 undulating marine data-gathering vehicle to the Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey in China following a delivery of two…

Leading equipment distributor MK Services of Leighton Buzzard has acquired a proprietary GIB (GPS Intelligent Buoy) system from French company, Advanced Concept & System Architecture (ACSA), following successful trials of a unit…

Thales GeoSolutions of Chessington has developed what it calls new-generation ROVs designed for multiple subsea applications from high-end survey work to drill rig support, the G3 series.

Primar Stavanger, the international electronic navigational chart (ENC) co-ordinating centre operated by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service, is offering a free trial for vessels considering joining its service.

French seismic survey company CGG has acquired three SIPS 2 seismic integrated positioning systems from Yateley-based Sonardyne International for real-time positioning of streamers in support of high-resolution 3D surveys aboard its vessels…

The Geological Survey of Ireland in Dublin reports completion of the deep-water section of its seven-year Euro 32m National Seabed Survey project aimed at mapping an offshore area ten times larger than…

California-based Thales Navigation has consolidated all its professional GPS products, including the Ashtech series of systems, under its own name by way of streamlining worldwide marketing operations including those in Europe.

Trimble Navigation in the US is offering a free interactive multimedia CD featuring its latest GPS-based marine survey and construction systems.