Fugro has secured a new contract with Energinet to undertake cable route surveys for the North Sea Energy Island project. The Energy Island will serve as an offshore power plant distributing up to 10G...

Wreck search is a special application of hydrographic surveying. Countless sunken ships – or what’s left of them – have been discovered over the years, often by means of a combined survey with m...

Woolpert has been granted a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its ‘Airborne Topo-Bathy Lidar System and Methods Thereof’. A Lidar sensor system was developed by a multidi...

Ifremer, the French Research Institute for Ocean Science, has received its new synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) from iXblue. It will equip the institute’s new 6,000m-rated Autonomous Underwater Vehicl...

In our profession, object detection takes the form of hydrographic surveys that are carried out to detect wrecks, anchors, pipelines and ammunition. The latter is better known as UXO surveys, which ar...

On 6 January, the research vessel Polarstern set off from Cape Town in South Africa for an expedition of around eight weeks to the Antarctic. Extensive preventive measures allow the Alfred Wegener Ins...

Last month, the presentation ceremony of the first two nautical charts co-produced by the Hydrographic Service of the Lebanese Navy and the Italian Hydrographic Institute took place at Jounieh Naval B...

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Technical Solutions division has successfully integrated its advanced autonomy solutions with Sea Machines Robotics’ SM300 autonomy product. The integration of these...

Hexagon, a global leader in digital reality solutions, today announced R-evolution’s efforts to map the threatened seagrass meadows of the Caribbean islands, beginning with the coastal waters of the...

University of South Florida marine scientists launched their first field mission in Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico to test a new approach to mapping shallow coastal areas – the most vulnerable to ...