Hydro International spoke to five leading experts about the present and future of the hydrographic industry. In this interview, Birte Noer Borrevik (Kartverket: the Norwegian Mapping Authority) talks about big...

Marc Roche is a geologist and scientific advisor and, since 2005, Head of the Continental Shelf Service (COPCO) in the Belgian Federal Public Service Economy. He is in charge of...

Kongsberg Maritime has announced the launch of the EM 304 MKII, the newest addition to its portfolio of deepwater multibeam echosounders. Underpinned by a brand new Kongsberg-designed wideband transmitter working...

Although the single beam echosounder is still in use, it has over the last 25 years gradually been replaced with new and less expensive multibeam echosounder (MBES) systems. And, although...

Sunrise over the little harbour of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (Royal NIOZ), with one of the research vessels of the institute in the background. Royal NIOZ is...

Hydrographic offices (HOs) today exist in a world of accelerating technological change that is influencing human behaviour and creating new needs for and ways of exploiting data to understand our...

This paper explores the various features of the Apache USV series for efficient seafloor-level mapping. The CHCNAV hydrographic survey software is used for data recording and analysis. It provides results...

Ifremer, the French National Institute for Ocean Science, has chosen iXblue, a global high-tech company specializing in the design and manufacturing of innovative systems and solutions devoted to inertial navigation,...

Kongsberg Maritime has released two new features on its EM 2040 MKII multibeam echosounder. The first enables the use of dual high frequencies to survey wide swaths of the seabed...

Robust recovery of lost colours in underwater images remains a challenging problem, say engineer and oceanographer Derya Akkaynak and Tali Treibitz, her postdoctoral research advisor, of the University of Haifa and...