Charting the Consequences
tsunami

Charting the Consequences

The catastrophic events following the Asian tsunami last Christmas have captured the world's attention. Governments and agencies are rushing to introduce a tsunami warning system mirroring the excelle...

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Digital Video: The Challenges
Survey

Digital Video: The Challenges

Digital methods of data acquisition are now commonplace in most offshore survey techniques. One of the last operations still being performed with analogue technology is the recording of video signals ...

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An Antipodean Perspective
Survey

An Antipodean Perspective

New Zealand is an island nation isolated in a huge ocean. To place it in context, we have a land mass roughly the size of Italy, a population of four million and the distance from Auckland to Sydney a...

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Fixing the Future
geospatial

Fixing the Future

As the Gulf coast of the USA recovers, and preparation to rebuild progresses in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the nexus between science and management will be crucial to informed coastal decisio...

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A Retrospective View

A Retrospective View

Surveying Extremes - the Southern Frontier - Extending the Geographic and Technological Boundaries, is the theme for the first HYDRO conference ever down under in New Zealand, in the city of Christchu...

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AUVs: A New Beginning
seafloor

AUVs: A New Beginning

This issue of Hydro international clearly demonstrates the level of effort and anticipation that is presently going into the development of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for offshore marine su...

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The Expanding Role of Hydrography
Multibeam

The Expanding Role of Hydrography

Traditionally the hydrographer, interested primarily in measuring the precise depth for charting purposes, suppressed acoustic ‘noise’ in the water column; now we realise what the ‘noise’ can ...

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It Is on the Web

It Is on the Web

"It is on the Web" has become one of the most common responses that I hear whenever I ask for information about almost anything. The only problem with this has to be where on the Web? Typing the word ...

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