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Beagle Gulf Hydrographic Survey in Full Swing

Precision Hydrographic Services (PHS) has recently been contracted by the Australian Hydrographic Office (AHO) to undertake a hydrographic survey in Beagle Gulf, located in the Northern Territory of A... (read more)

NOAA Selects Woolpert for US$40M Shoreline Mapping Support Services Contract

Woolpert has been selected as a prime consultant for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Shoreline Mapping Support Services contract. The firm and its partners will... (read more)

Using New Acoustic Technology to Help Conserve the Southern Ocean Ecosystem

Sea-level Charting Satellite Passes with Flying Colours

New Depth Map over the Arctic Ocean

Fugro Starts Vattenfall Site Investigations at UK Offshore Wind Farms

Sonardyne Underwater Positioning to Support Fugro’s Offshore Wind Operations in North America

Ifremer Selects iXblue’s Technology to Equip Its New 6000-metre AUV

Swathe Services Takes Delivery of SBG Ekinox Navsight INS for Customer Demonstrations

UKHO Appoints Rear Admiral Peter Sparkes as Acting Chief Executive

Using Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Bathymetric Dam Imaging

Inspection of dams is a high-risk task for divers because of strong currents and eddies. The use of emerging technologies such as unmanned surface vehicles equipped with echosounders and sonars can lower those risks. Such systems can perform subsurfa... (read more)

Subsea Autonomy is Moving Beyond Waypoints

The AUV has been the tool of choice for shallow-water MCM and EOD operations for a number of years. The coverage by popular news channels of unfortunate events, such as the MH370 tragedy, has also shown that the AUV has undisputedly become the tool o... (read more)

Mapping Underwater Terrain with Bathymetric Lidar

High-resolution bathymetric surveys support aquaculture research and increase navigational safety. In a case study, Tim Webster reports how this is done at Cape John Peninsula in Canada. In the second one, Carol Lockhart describes the project in the... (read more)

Scientific Challenges in a Crucial Region for Planet Earth

Research Expedition to Map Scottish Seabed

Hydrographic Education During a Lockdown

Enhancing Port and Harbour Security with Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Preparing the European Fleet of Research Vessels for the Future

How GPS Trackers and Drones Help Locate Floating Debris

Securing Offshore Oil and Gas Infrastructure with USVs

Events

HYPACK 2020 Hydrographic Training Event

06/01/2020 - 09/01/2020

Jacksonville, Florida, US

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OCEANS 2020: Singapore - U.S. Gulf Coast - Virtual

05/10/2020 - 30/10/2020

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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)

Featured Job Listing

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Coordinator & Instructor/Asst. Teaching Professor, Hydrographic Science

The School of Ocean Science and Engineering (SOSE) at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) invites qualified applicants for a full-time, 12-month, position as Coordinator & Instructor (or Assistant Teaching Professor, if holding a terminal degree) of the Hydrographic Science B.S. and M.S. programs in the Division of Marine Science....

Company Highlight

Valeport Limited

Valeport is the UK’s leading manufacturer of Hydrographic and Oceanographic instrumentation which includes Sound Velocity Probes / Sensors, Altimeters, Radar Level Sensors, Current Meters, Tide Gauges, Fluorometers, Wave Recorders, CTDs, Multi-Parameter CTD and GPS Echo Sounders. Supporting Hydrographic surveys with the latest in technology is always our prime aim and...

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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, latests developments and national and international policies.