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, d...

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 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 syste...

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 auto...

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 U...

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 th...

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 plac...

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Technical Solutions division has successfully integrated its advanced autonomy solutions with Sea Machines Robotics’ SM300 autonomy produ...

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 t...

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 –...

In 1910, the Navy steamer tug known as the USS Nina sank off the coast of Delaware and Maryland with more than 30 people aboard. Since that time, the official location of the shipw...

Active sonar suite and bottom navigation technology from Kongsberg Maritime has been selected for installation on Type 212CD class submarines for both the Norwegian and German navi...

The Hydrographic Office of the Polish Navy has purchased iXblue’s DriX uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) through the company’s local partner Thesta. The USV will be advanc...

ASL Environmental Sciences has announced the combining of its Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) with its Ice Profiling Sonar (IPS) to provide a comprehensive solution for i...

Angola sees Africa’s first offshore oil platform decommissioning underway as EQS (Environment Quality Services) successfully deploys their Saab Seaeye Falcon for determining...

Airbus has completed Sentinel-6B, the second ocean monitoring satellite of the European Copernicus programme, and is now testing it extensively over the next six months in preparat...

For centuries, the Goodwin Sands – a 16km-long sandbank at the southern end of the North Sea off the coast of Kent, England – have posed a navigational threat to marine...

The sheer expanse of the deep sea and the technological challenges of working in an extreme environment make these depths difficult to access and study. Scientists know more about...

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has strengthened its long-standing relationship with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) by enhancing its membership level from technical to strategi...

Poor visibility conditions have a huge impact on the environmental perception of autonomous robots. How can they still operate safely and reliably? In the new DeeperSense project,...

A five-metre zero-carbon uncrewed boat was welcomed to Penzance (Cornwall, UK) last weekend after 16 weeks in the Atlantic, where it spent time at the edge of the continental shelf...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has released the Call for Participation (CFP) to solicit proposals for funded participation in the OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastruc...

Ocean Floor Geophysics (OFG) and DOF Subsea (DOF) have entered into a strategic alliance for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) services to the global offshore industry. The partn...

Combined long baseline (LBL) acoustic positioning and inertial navigation system (INS) software from Sonardyne has helped to support the latest phase of an offshore project off nor...

NEOM has announced extensive findings from a joint mission with the non-profit ocean exploration organization OceanX, following the most adventurous assessment of the northern Red...

Since 2019, Deep BV has been deployed in the Baltic Sea working for Fehmarn Belt Contractors I/S. Deep is performing a geophysical site investigation of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel tren...

Blue Ocean Seismic Services, an innovative marine seismic survey company, recently completed a series of passive and active sea trials in the North Sea using a DP2 class multipurpo...

Hexagon’s Geosystems division has announced a partnership with Airbus to integrate two Leica Chiroptera 4X bathymetric Lidar sensors for maritime surveillance into the C295 M...

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS), a world-leading centre for polar science and operations, has added the iXblue DriX Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) to its advanced robotic survey...

A researcher and crew at Middlebury College in Vermont are using bathymetric technologies to develop a map of the depths of Lake Champlain. Between 2012 and 2020, Professor Tom Man...