Surveying beyond navigation
Hydro International interviewed RDML Benjamin Evans, director of NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey. Evans is responsible for overseeing the mapping and charting of all US coastal...
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The future of hydrographic surveying: balancing automation and human expertise
The implementation of the new IHO hydrographic geospatial standard for marine data and information, the S-100 product family, presents significant challenges that require coordinat...
Seabed 2030 speeding up to meet its decade target
Seabed 2030 is rapidly approaching its ultimate objective of mapping the entire seabed within seven years. To achieve this goal, the project is actively seeking donations of both p...
Navigating climate change: Kiribati’s efforts to address sea-level rise
The impacts of climate change and sea-level rise on daily life in Kiribati and the Pacific region can also be felt in the hydrographic profession. In this interview, Tion Uriam, th...
Exciting Applications for Lidar
The RIEGL laser scanner company has been innovating laser scanning technology for more than 30 years. The equipment can be found in the most remote and even challenging locations a...
Continuously Evolve Solutions as a Strategy
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A View on Hydrography by a Younger Generation
Hydrographic surveying still requires skilled people. The profession itself is carried out across the world and performed in different fields. Whether the profession involves envir...
A View on Hydrography From an ECDIS Manufacturer
Since the introduction of the IMO resolution on having ECDIS systems on board Solas vessels the demand on technological advancements on ECDIS systems has grown. Dr. Nikolay Lebedev...
Balancing Old and New Roles Key to Hydrography
This article is fully available at http://member.hydro-international.com/. Surveying a coastline of 102,000km and sea surface of 2.3 million km2 to make safe navigation possible i...
Pioneer for Space Geodesy
The field of geodesy is undergoing a revolutionary change. The developments of the last few decades have altered the views and work of professional surveyors, researchers and devel...
Marine Insititutes Co-operate to Improve Ocean Knowledge
The full feature is online at http://member.hydro-international.com/. Please subscribe for free using the Subscribe button in the left hand column. Peter Harris outlines how hydrog...
IHO Committed to Serve the Mariner
Robert Ward took over the presidency of the IHO from Vice Admiral Alexandros Maratos in September. President Ward was elected by the Member States of the Organisation at their five...
Equal Sharing of Deep-sea Resources
Deep ocean minerals are the future resources for the common heritage of mankind as other natural resources are becoming depleted. The International Seabed Authority is an autonomou...
It’s All About Location, Location, Location
The rate of data growth is climbing exponentially, thanks to new sensors, new social networks and new ways to create and capture data. In response, Oracle is tackling four issues o...
Educational Institutes Need to Reach Out in Co-operation
Brest is the biggest supplier of highly qualified hydrographers in Europe with more than 30 graduates per year and growing. Can you explain the success of ENSTA? The success of E...
Mariners Need More Current Hydrographic Data
Almost 50 years in hydrography gives you insight and authority to talk about the field and the changes it has gone through in half a century. Rear Admiral Christian Andreasen talks...
e-Navigation for Increasing Safety
Gurpreet Singhota is Deputy Director/Head of the Operational Safety Section within the Maritime Safety Division of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and will therefore...
Gentlemen, on Your Marks!
Every five years, tensions at the International Hydrographic Conference in Monaco rise to a maximum, when the Member States of the IHO gather to vote for the three director positio...
More Maritime Boundary Issues at ITLOS
The International Tribunal for Law of the Sea is a judicial body, seated in Hamburg, but unlike the International Court of Justice in The Hague, specialised in the field of the law...
Surveying and Charting
Surveying, charting and monitoring a complex and vast area which includes features from rivers, waterways, a long Atlantic coast to the Antarctic Peninsula environment, is a very c...
Responsible Coastal Zone Management
The coastal zone is immensely important for humankind, marine and coastal spatial planning is a vital tool for planning and preserving the world’s coasts. Ron Furness, is a nautica...
Hydrography to Fill in the 'I' in ECDIS
Hydrographers need to step up and fill the I in ECDIS, says Michael Casey, vice president Geospatial Systems at IIC Technologies and prior to that director for Nautical Charting at...
Hydrographers Stepping Up to the Challenge
A schizophrenic interest in both ocean engineering and the ocean’s record of climate history led Larry Mayer, director, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM), co-director, Jo...
Maritime Authority in the Caribbean
Having learned of the tremendous effort made by the Maritime Authority of Suriname, led by Mr Michel Amafo, in developing its hydrographic service, Hydro International now has the...
UKHO Strives for Worldwide Leadership in Hydrographic Information
In about eight years from now business for the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office originating from digital charts will exceed business from paper charts. But according to Mike Robi...
Renewables Offer our Biggest Opportunity
The biggest challenge for hydrography lies in surveying the Arctic seas, and the biggest opportunity for the industry lies in renewables like offshore wind energy and gas hydrates....
