NOAA’s Marine Chart Division (MCD) is currently revising production efforts using an ‘ENC-first’ approach to provide seamless and tiled geographic coverage. Currently, ENC production workflows within MCD require cartographers to...

Mapping the world’s oceans is a tremendous task that would benefit from a prioritization strategy. In this article, an in-depth presentation of one such approach is given: GIS-based analysis that...

Anne-Cathrin Wölfl is a postdoctoral research associate in the research division Dynamics of the Ocean Floor at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. She received a...

France and Ifremer have long been involved in the discovery and study of deep-sea mineral resources and their associated ecosystems. With a rather unique position in the marine research landscape,...

Esri has announced that Argentina's coast guard, Prefectura Naval, and Aeroterra S.A. have partnered to implement Esri's ArcGIS platform for a real-time tracking system. The new system, called Guardacostas Pro,...

Last week, the MH370 Safety Investigation Report was presented by the Ministery of Traffic of the Malaysian Government. On 8 March 2014, the  Malaysian Airlines aircraft went missing in the...

Geoscience Australia has been awarded the 2018 Special Achievement in GIS Award (SAG) by Esri, the global leader in Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. In San Diego to accept the...

While 70% of the Earth is covered by water, very little of it has been surveyed so far (Mars, Venus and the Moon are better surveyed). The techniques for doing so...

ABPmer, a recognised authority in metocean data services, has recently launched its Global Data Explorer providing instant access to free metocean data and statistics. Using the data explorer enables users to discover the world’s...

OceanWise has been awarded the framework agreement for the provision of GIS marine data to the Scottish government. The company will be delivering marine mapping data products and services including Marine...