These theme weeks take us to the very core of our industry. The nautical chart – the original driver of hydrography – is still going strong and, be it in paper form or ENC, is used on every ship. To create these, extensive bathymetric surveys are performed and additional data is collected on aids to navigation and topography. However, it is not only the nautical chart that requires bathymetric data: this is and will continue to be the backbone of hydrographic surveying employing echosounders, side-scan sonar and advanced positioning systems.
The most prominent international effort to chart the world’s entire ocean floor, The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, has seen a significant increase in ocean data equating to the size o...
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has begun conducting research with robot submarine Boaty McBoatface on end-of-life oil fields off the coast of the Shetland Islands to help monitor and protect t...
The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has conducted a seabed mapping data survey in Montserrat to improve the safety of navigation around the island and to help understand, manage and protect its marine ...
Maritime surveying is one of the most difficult and time-consuming steps in offshore wind energy projects. TrueOcean radically shortens the process of processing data into information with its cloud-b...
“Think big for coastal mapping” is the foremost advice that Don Ventura of Teledyne Geospatial would impress upon agencies interested in bathymetric Lidar. “It’s a matter of efficiency of scal...
As the rapid expansion of the offshore wind industry continues worldwide, one of the challenges facing developers at each phase of an offshore wind farm’s 40-year lifespan is the ongoing survey and ...
The Saildrone (SD) 1079 uncrewed vehicle has just completed a first-of-its-kind mission to remote areas of the equatorial tropical Atlantic. Sailing 11,910 nautical miles (22,057km) and spending 370 d...
Morro Bay, a shallow coastal estuary located near San Luis Obispo, California, supports an abundance of wildlife and is home to a vibrant outdoor community. However, changes – such as sedimentation...
Most people working in hydrography know very well that better ocean data can be used to inform a variety of decisions, from storm preparedness to helping develop the blue economy. But could we do more...
The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project recently entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Ocean Research Project (ORP). The parties will work together to support the global effort i...
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