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...

SHOM – the French national hydrographic service – is planning to replace most of its aging seagoing assets in the near future and, in this context, a four-week sea tria...

As the informed readership of Hydro International knows, the oceans sustain the planet. And, while there are many drivers of the changes to the Earth’s climate that now pose...

The South African Council for Geoscience recently launched an initiative to optimize marine geophysical data collection in South African waters. The main aim of the initiative is t...

Crewless aerial mapping was recently chosen when surveying the Faroe Islands. For the small team, labour savings provided one advantage of a UAV-based approach. Another benefit was...

The detection of unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the sea is a demanding task. UXO survey data is acquired using a set of different sensors in different configurations and can span lar...

SWAMP (Shallow Water Autonomous Multipurpose Platform) is a new autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) whose design and development form the foundation for an innovative class of highly...

Coastal areas are highly dynamic environments that are subject to diverse pressures, both anthropogenic (e.g. urban development, fishing, habitat modification) and natural (e.g. st...

During the life cycle of offshore wind farms (OWFs), operators must maximize the uptime of wind turbines to generate as much energy as possible. As OWFs are constructed further fro...

RIEGL tested the performance of its topobathymetric airborne laser scanning system in a transition zone context along the French Mediterranean coast. Initially planned as a UAV sur...

XOCEAN has completed 35 cable inspection surveys using a combination of uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) and uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) between the Scottish mainland and Wester...

As the demand for elevation data continues to rise, it is important that users match the level of reliability, accuracy and resolution of the data to their specific application to...

This article presents a participative geomatics project with the goal of increasing southern Québec’s coastal communities’ ability to map and monitor changes in...

The accuracy of coastline data in Indonesia could be much improved by making use of Lidar bathymetry technology. In this article, the authors describe how Lidar bathymetry survey t...

Acteon, a leading provider of services to the offshore wind industry, is growing, along with the rapidly expanding offshore wind market. The company believes it is important to lis...

With the ever-increasing and affordable availability of capacity and computing power to process and store data, the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in marine geomatics, o...

The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade) 2021-2030 seeks to generate and use knowledge for transformative actions needed to achiev...

Over the next five years, we will witness a significant reduction in the maritime industry’s reliance on larger vessels, as the focus on compact and agile uncrewed surface ve...

Jyotika Virmani was executive director of the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE before she entered Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI), also as executive director. Two positions at the forefr...

Hydro International spoke to five leading experts about the present and future of the hydrographic industry. In this interview, Eric Langlois (International Federation of Hydrograp...

Ready to invest, in equipment, staff and training, but unsure about future growth at this stage of the Covid-19 pandemic: that seems to be the outcome of our Hydro International Re...