More than a decade of mapping and exploration work by federal, academic and private-sector partners has uncovered what has been deemed the largest deep-sea coral reef habitat mapped to date. Spanning ...

The term ‘digital twin’ has gained significant popularity in recent years, becoming a buzzword in various industries, particularly in the context of emerging technologies and innovations. Hypes co...

Hydrographer and researcher Elias Adediran unpacks a common misconception in hydrography: is it really ‘sound velocity profiling’ or should we be saying ‘sound speed profiling’? Drawing on ind...

When Jonathan Beaudoin delivered his first multibeam training session, it wasn’t part of some grand plan – it started with a phone call and a willingness to say yes. Two years and more than 50 cou...

Manon Larocque oversees hydrographic efforts across one of the most geographically vast and diverse maritime regions in the world. Here, she shares her perspective on Canada’s influential role in th...

The delimitation of maritime boundaries plays a significant role in preserving a country’s sovereignty and jurisdiction. Their determination justify a country’s rights, allowing coastal states to ...

Everyday life around the world depends on a global network of over 500 subsea cables that silently carry 95% of all international data [1]. These cables stretch more than 1.4 million kilometres across...

Many surveying professionals – and contract specifications – use the term ‘accuracy’ without fully defining it, according to our technical editor Huibert-Jan Lekkerkerk. Using the ASPRS and IH...

Underwater acoustic technology has been part of the hydrospatial industry’s toolbox for many decades, but as we witness throughout our industry, the combination of increasingly capable computing pow...

GeoAI is the application of artificial intelligence (AI) fused with geospatial data, science and technology to solve geographic-based problem sets. GeoAI, therefore, is not a product to be bought and ...