The Alexander Dalrymple Award is given by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) in recognition of an outstanding contribution to world hydrography. First presented in 2006,...

The Hydro17 Organising Committee is pleased to present the preliminary programme for the Hydro17 Conference to be held in Rotterdam from 14 to 16 November 2017. With almost 50 pape...

Hydrography is important to visualise the water floor. This can be done in various ways, from using a sounding stick to a remotely controlled singlebeam echosounder or a survey ves...

On 29 November 2005, the United Nations designated 21 June as World Hydrography Day. This year, World Hydrography Day also marked the 96th anniversary of the establi...

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News During the past few years in Russia there has been an increase in the number of various private firms connected with navigation and hydrography. The Hydrographic Society, Rus...

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News The First Atlas of Lake Ladoga A atlas of Lake Ladoga, an ancient gulf of the Baltic Sea, has recently been published. It was edited in St Petersburg under the leadership of H...

News The HSSA AGM was held at the end of January 2005 and Aubrey Price (president) and Steve Smith (secretary/treasurer) were re-elected to manage the affairs of the Society for th...

Recent News Our monthly meetings continue as planned with increased turnout and interest from existing and new members. The society meets at 18:00hrs on the last Tuesday of the mon...

News The General Meeting of the South African Hydrographic Society is now a firm fixture on members monthly activities and it is encouraging to see old and new colleagues attend ou...

News Besides its regular monthly get-togethers, the Society has had a busy time planning a Hydrographic Course, the Technical Awareness Seminar (TAS 05) and an outing to a locally...

News The Hydrographic Society of South Africa continues to flourish and has just started the second year of revived activity since its rebirth at the beginning of 2002. An Annual G...

Only on 25th June could the HSR Council gather for its first session in its new composition. The session was devoted to the organisation of work, council functions being distribute...

News It has been decided to postpone the Annual General Meeting of the Hydrographic Society of South Africa (HSSA) until after the end of the financial year (February 2003). This w...

News The second AGM of the revamped Hydrographic Society of South Africa was held in late February 2004, with the re-election of Aubrey Price (Reson) as Presi-dent of the Society a...

News On June 24th the Hydrographic Society Benelux held a workshop entitled ‘Hydrography! @Your Service’. Although still not yet officially ratified, the workshop also related a li...

News HBS Workshop and Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Hydrographic Society of the Benelux was held on 7th February 2003 at the Delft University of...

News Although the HSSA has not contributed to this column for a number of months, the Society is still active and meeting regularly every month in Cape Town. A number of resolution...

News The Sixty Second session of the Hydrographic Society of Russia (HSR) Council took place on 15 November 2004. As usual, the President and the Secretary reported on the work exe...

Christmas Workshop The Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) has held its Christmas workshop in Utrecht, on 16 December. The theme of the afternoon was ‘Hydrographic data management,...

News General director of the Federal State Unitary Hydrographic Department (FSUHD) of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation Victor Medvedev informed the HSR Council i...

The fifth Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) took place on 17th February in the Exhibition Centre Neeltje Jans, followed by a workshop entitled...

News Annual General Meeting The second Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Hydro-graphic Society Benelux (HSB) took at the Faculty of Geodesy of the Technical University in Delft p...

News The third Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) took place on 13 February at Delft University of Technology. A workshop was held prior to the...

On Friday 14 June, in the presence of a large audience, Thales Navigation BV organised a corporate workshop ‘New GPS equipment’ under the auspices of the Hydrographic Society Benel...

News Much has happened during this summer in relation to the transition of The Hydrographic Society towards becoming the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies. During...

A session of HSR Council took place on 1st February 2006. Under consideration was the IHO CL ¹8/2006 announcement that the United Nations General Assembly on 29th November 2005 ado...

On 19 April, the Hydrographic Society Benelux, together with The Netherlands Institute of Navigation and the working group Applied Space Geodesy of The Netherlands Association of G...