Uncrewed vehicles, both surface and airborne, are increasingly being used for hydrographic surveying. While the technology of data acquisition using these platforms is generally known, the fusion of this data...

Fugro Marinestar measures GNSS satellite orbit and clock corrections for GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou. These corrections are sent over six geostationary L-band satellites and over internet and can be...

It is almost impossible these days to imagine geoinformation without GNSS, and most geodetic services have switched to GNSS to maintain their geodetic reference network rather than using traditional optical...

The Crown Estate recently commissioned new detailed survey work to enhance knowledge of the quality and distribution of marine sand and gravel resources in the UK and to support the...

ThayerMahan, a world leader in autonomous maritime solutions, has established a collaborative partnership with the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center (CCOM/JHC). CCOM/JHC is a formal cooperative partnership...

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 vehicle (AUV) dedicated...

Underwater obstacle avoidance technology from the maritime defence technology companies Sonardyne and Wavefront has been successfully demonstrated on board an extra-large, uncrewed underwater vehicle (XLUUV) built and operated by Plymouth-based...

In collaboration with four French, Belgian and German geoscience laboratories, iXblue’s sonar systems division recently mobilized its SeapiX 3D multibeam echosounder and Echoes 10,000 sub-bottom profiler to image the Laacher...

GPASEABOTS, a GPAINNOVA Group company located in Barcelona (Spain) and specializing in marine robotics and solutions for maritime and inland water operations, has recently developed a USV based on the...

In November 2020, a team of researchers from GEOMAR and EGEOS embarked on an unusual round trip across the German Baltic Sea. Their mission was to shed light on the...