An oil slick was seen on the surface of Nootka Sound and staining on rocks of nearby Bligh Island, west of Vancouver Island, Canada, in late 2020. This set in motion an emergency operation to identify...

A recent survey of the inland port on the island of Helgoland demonstrates that choosing the right vessel for offshore surveys can save time and money, especially when the only alternative is to trans...

In collaboration with four French, Belgian and German geoscience laboratories, iXblue’s sonar systems division recently mobilized its SeapiX 3D multibeam echosounder and Echoes 10,000 sub-bottom pro...

Teledyne Optech and Teledyne CARIS have united to form Teledyne Geospatial in response to evolving marketplace needs. Under the Teledyne Imaging group, the harmony between the two business units is cl...

GPASEABOTS, a GPAINNOVA Group company located in Barcelona (Spain) and specializing in marine robotics and solutions for maritime and inland water operations, has recently developed a USV based on the...

As with most new vessel charters, A-2-Sea was starting from scratch when mobilizing the Noortruck with its new Applanix POS MV OceanMaster, so careful consideration was required for sensor location. T...

For many applications, we need to know what is where underwater. Side-scan sonar is one of the core sensors for imaging the bed of water bodies and it is increasingly being used for inland application...

Arctia-Meritaito has efficiently produced a seamless digital terrain model of land and water along the shallow coastal areas of the German island of Sylt, using a Leica Chiroptera 4X airborne bathymet...

With the advances taking place in newly developed autonomous platforms, hydrography is accelerating its revolution towards a 4.0 industry. The deployment of uncrewed surface vessels means that human s...

Every player in the survey industry has been affected by the pandemic in unique ways. What each had in common though, was an almost complete halt of face-to-face interaction with competitors and colla...