Following the adoption of the new ECDIS performance standard at IMO MSC106 in November 2022, the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) has planned a phased rollout of S-100 navigational inform...

In March 2022, almost precisely 100 years after the burial of famed British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, his legendary ship Endurance was finally located at the bottom of the Weddell Sea in Antar...

Ensuring safe and efficient maritime navigation is a critical task for coastal nations, but can also be a lengthy and costly exercise. The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is responsible for charting mil...

In October 2024, officers from the Category “A” Specialization Programme in Hydrography for Naval Officers of the Peruvian Navy conducted their complex multidisciplinary field project at Lake Titi...

In 2017, when the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project began, only 6% of the global ocean floor had been mapped to modern standards. By World Hydrography Day 2024, that figure had risen to 26.1...

In 2025, the world will mark 80 years since the end of World War II – a conflict defined by pivotal moments such as the Normandy invasion. Known as D-Day, this extraordinary operation saw 156,000 Al...

The mapping of underwater terrain and the monitoring of coastal and inland waters have been transformed by airborne bathymetric Lidar. The precision of laser-based remote sensing, combined with the ab...

To support the prevention of casualties from rip currents, the Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Agency (KHOA) applied object detection and image classification technologies to real-time rip curren...

Each year, Hydro International picks up the sounding line to gauge the landscape of the hydrographic sector. By posing questions to the hydrographic community, we measure the currents and underlying t...

The hydrography profession seems to have a lower profile among young people compared to other marine sciences. Enrolment in hydrography courses has been decreasing for many years, and companies are st...