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...

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 responsi...

In October 2024, officers from the Category “A” Specialization Programme in Hydrography for Naval Officers of the Peruvian Navy conducted their complex multidisciplinar...

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 figu...

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...

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

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 curre...

The basis of any construction or charting project is the definition of an unambiguous, retrievable horizontal and vertical Coordinate Reference System (CRS). This should be include...

The ocean covers 71% of the surface of our planet and encompasses 93% of the habitable volume on Earth. However, most of it is inaccessible to humans without technical assistance....

Offshore survey work has long been economically and environmentally demanding. In search of a modern solution for its own oceanographic surveys, the National Oceanography Centre (N...

In the constantly evolving landscape of climate change, geospatial science stands out as a vital tool for understanding and addressing the complexities of our changing world, with...

The Seabed 2030 initiative, anticipated to be a game-changer in ocean sciences and marine navigation, will map the ocean floor by 2030. Shallow-water bathymetry is a critical part...

Lake Michigan water levels fluctuate by as much as two metres over decadal time spans, altering how waves and currents interact with coastal sediments and lakefront infrastructure...

Like other hydrographic offices, Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) collects survey data for safety of navigation, producing and maintaining nautical charts and pr...

Espresso is a free and open source software to visualize and analyse multibeam water column data. Its core feature is the capability to echo-integrate water column data vertically,...

Due to the specifics of the Baltic Sea, performing accurate measurements in the coastal zone is not an easy task. For the past decade, topographic laser scanners have been used for...

The data for the images of the sunken vessels SS Tiberia and RMS Leinster, submitted as entries to the Kongsberg Discovery Multibeam Image Contest 2023, was captured during seabed...

Topobathymetric Lidar technology has become an indispensable tool in environmental management, particularly for monitoring and preserving fragile ecosystems. In central Nebraska, a...

Dutch fishermen often discover remains of extinct large mammals such as woolly mammoths and aurochs, indicating that the North Sea was once inhabited by hunter-gatherer communities...

Three marine organizations teamed up in the summer of 2023 to prepare Canadian ocean mapping students to become ‘hydrographers of the future’. The first-of-its-kind int...

Is climate change affecting fish populations in this part of the ocean? Are we seeing more vessel activity than usual? What is the best location in this area to develop a wind ener...

Globally, surface air and ocean temperatures have warmed by about 1°C since 1900. More than 90% of the additional heat contained in the climate system (atmosphere, ocean, land)...

The Marine Geoscience Research Group at University College Cork, under the aegis of the Irish Marine Institute, has published the first high-resolution geomorphological map of most...

Given the Netherlands’ geographical location, it is unsurprising to find it has a long tradition of hydrography. The lowland, often below sea level, forms a delta where major...