Nortek is supporting metocean survey and consulting company Partrac to provide floating wind farm developers with detailed and accurate data on metocean conditions at potential development sites. Using acoustic Doppler...

Hydrospatial could be described as that portion of geospatial knowledge infrastructure that addresses the hydrosphere, and hydrospatial technologies support navigation, economic development, stability, security and defence, resilience and scientific research....

CSA Ocean Sciences (CSA), a U.S.-based marine environmental consulting firm, has revealed details of the company’s latest Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) acquisition, an SR-Endurance 11.0 (SeaRobotics). The heavy payload ASV,...

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) contracted with Woolpert to collect aerial topographic and bathymetric Lidar data and high-resolution, four-band imagery at select sites along the southwest coast...

Subsea Europe Services (Hamburg, Germany) and Cyprus Subsea Consulting and Services (Nicosia, Cyprus) have entered into a new strategic cooperation to share knowledge and services that will simplify the acquisition...

As readers of Hydro International know, the world’s ports and harbours are crucial to global trade. From Singapore to Antwerp, and from Shanghai to Rotterdam, Los Angeles, other megaports and...

We had prepared an extra thick edition of Hydro International for you, full of feature articles, columns, an interview and news from and a preview of Oceanology International 2020. However,...

As more and more oceanographic buoys are being deployed around the world, incidents of ships striking these buoys are also increasing. At times, the impact of the strike can be...

Danish consulting firm COWI has awarded Fugro a nearshore geotechnical site investigation for CPH City & Port Development’s Lynetteholmen megaproject in Copenhagen. Fugro’s site investigation will be used to inform...

The Rapid Airborne Multibeam Mapping System, RAMMS, was developed over a period of three years before it was officially launched in the summer of 2018. Senior hydrographer Richard Goosen describes how Fugro used the system for coastal and nearshore mapping at the paradisal Turks and Caicos Islands. Insight into the use of the Rapid Airborne Multibeam Mapping System (RAMMS) for coastal and nearshore mapping at the paradisal Turks and Caicos Islands. The Rapid Airborne Multibeam Mapping System,...