North Sea wrecks: Toxic legacies of war

North Sea wrecks: Toxic legacies of war

Some 290 shipwrecks lie in the Belgian part of the North Sea alone, with probably more than 1,000 in the entire North Sea, many of them silent witnesses to the two world wars. Unti...

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The search for the Montevideo Maru

The search for the Montevideo Maru

Fugro has utilized its cutting-edge hydrographic technology in Australia to locate the final resting place of the 'Montevideo Maru', which sank in 1942 with more than 1,200 people...

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Hydrospatial and the marine environment

Hydrospatial and the marine environment

Hydrographic offices (HOs) today exist in a world of accelerating technological change that is influencing human behaviour and creating new needs for and ways of exploiting data to...

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Automatic calibration for MBES offsets

Automatic calibration for MBES offsets

Currently, calibration of multibeam echosounders (MBES) for hydrographic surveys is based on the traditional ‘patch test’ method. This subjective method, although rigor...

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Sentinel-2 coastal charting worldwide

Sentinel-2 coastal charting worldwide

It is widely and wrongly assumed that the world’s coastal regions have been surveyed in detail by modern techniques and that the resulting nautical charts are an accurate ref...

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