We are entering a new era in which working with digital equipment will fit into daily business. Developments are moving fast, making keeping up difficult. GeoMETIUS is a Dutch company...

The place: Cross River, Nigeria, the year: 1974.... Well before RTK, GPS, computers, GIS, total stations, laptops and all those other toys that make a surveyor’s life bearable nowadays. We...

MAPPS, an association of geospatial, mapping and photogrammetry companies in USA, has added fifteen new member firms – now reaching more than 160 member and associate member firms. This number...

The General Acoustics (Germany) has appointed “S.E.A. Corporation” from Ichikawa City as their new exclusive agent for Japan. Also in Poland a new partner could be found. It is Eko...

MAPPS has introduced the Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards. This new annual awards programme will recognise the professionalism, value, integrity and achievement of MAPPS member and associate member firms...

The article ‘GEBCO and Deep Water’ (see page 7) by David –Monahan draws attention to the need for more deep-survey data, implying not only the discipline of having equipment running...

Navigational safety and political-economic considerations make it essential for port administrations and hydrographic services to have a prioritised survey programme. Finding criteria that reflect the importance of re-survey over a...

This paper describes the development of a web spatial image server used for sharing huge sets of georeferenced coastal orthophotos on the web via an easy visualisation interface. Traditional cartography...

Imagine piloting a 398m container ship into port TODAY using an ENC updated with survey data collected YESTERDAY. Isn’t this order of turnaround time the ultimate dream of any ENC...

McDonald Bradley has recently won an US$11.2 million prime contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) to develop the Nautical Charting System II – an enterprise solution for...