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How Does Backscatter Help us Understand the Seafloor?

Backscatter is the reflection of a signal (such as sound waves or light) back in the direction from where it originated. Backscatter is commonly used in medical ultrasounds to understand characteristi... (read more)

New Online Service MarineDash Plans to Connect the Marine Industry

MarineDash is a newly launched online service designed to connect vessel owners with prospective charterers. The service will cater initially to vessels for hydrographic and geophysical survey, ROV an... (read more)

UKHO Announces Release of Seabed Mapping Service

Fugro Wraps up Offshore Field Programme for Mayflower Wind in US

New Hydrographic System for Shallow-water ‘Gap-filler’ Surveys

New Zealand Ports Benefit from National High-tech Seabed Survey

USF and NOAA Launch Cooperative Ocean Mapping Center

Kraken Robotics MINSAS Now Available on Teledyne Gavia AUV

M&E Deploys Autonomous Survey Vessel on Florida Reef Survey

Seatools Equips Boskalis with Plough Position Monitoring Buoy

Bathymetry from UAV Imagery and Machine Learning

Accurate bathymetric mapping of shallow areas is essential for a plethora of offshore activities. Through Structure from Motion (SfM) and Multiview Stereo (MVS) techniques, images can provide a low-cost alternative compared to Lidar and sonar systems... (read more)

Measuring and 3D Mapping of Sea Ice in the Arctic

Sea ice is one of the most important parameters when it comes to ice-albedo feedback; in other words, the fraction of incoming solar radiation that is reflected directly back into space. Because of the grave importance of the decrease in the amount o... (read more)

Automatic Calibration for MBES Offsets

Currently, calibration of multibeam echosounders (MBES) for hydrographic surveys is based on the traditional ‘patch test’ method. This subjective method, although rigorous, has major drawbacks, such as being time-consuming (both data acqu... (read more)

Sentinel-2 Coastal Charting Worldwide

How Copernicus Sentinel-6 Will Monitor the Oceans

How Robotic Technology Officially Identified the World War II Submarine S-28 Gravesite

Mapping the Subsea Forests of the Mediterranean

600 Researchers to Spend a Whole Year Trapped in the Ice

Submerged Munitions, No Hazard Left Undetected

Mapping Submarine Groundwater Discharge with Thermal Infrared Imaging

Events

HYPACK 2021 Hydrographic Training Event

06/01/2021 - 08/01/2021

California, US

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Ocean Business July 6-8 2021

06/07/2021 - 08/07/2021

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, GB

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Fugro's CEO: “Working for a Safer and More Sustainable World”

Mark Heine is chairman of the board and CEO of Fugro, which is headquartered in the Netherlands. Fugro is among the leading and largest specialized survey companies in the world, serving the full lifecycle of assets, and describes itself as a geodata... (read more)

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“Tharp Helped Keep Me Going”

"It wasn’t always easy being a black woman in my early days as an oceanographer,” says Dawn Wright, chief scientist at a worldwide operating company specialized in mapping and spatial analytics software. But a fictional pirate and a pione... (read more)

Company Highlight

INNOMAR Technologie GmbH

INNOMAR Technologie GmbH has been providing efficient underwater acoustic survey equipment and associated software tailored to customer requirements for more than 20 years. The ‘INNOMAR SES-2000’ series of parametric sub-bottom profilers (SBP) with more than 300 units sold is perfectly suited for exploring the sub-seafloor at high resolution in water...

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Hydro International started out as a print magazine in 1996 and soon developed into a the multimedia platform it is today, featuring a successful website and respected weekly newsletter. Hydro International is published six times a year. The magazine is international in scope and focuses on bringing to its readership topical overviews and the latest news and developments in the technology and management of hydrographic and oceanographic activities.

Hydro International seeks and publishes the opinion of leading hydrographers, oceanographers, marine biologists, maritime archaeologists and other professionals on the state of the market, technical issues, latest developments and national and international policies.