Fugro has been awarded the contract to conduct an Airborne Lidar Bathymetry (ALB) survey of the Queensland Sunshine Coast (Australia) to be conducted during October and November 2011. The main...

IHC Merwede, Netherlands, and DEME, Belgium, are entering into a joint venture named OceanflORE for deep-sea mining activities. IHC Merwede will be responsible for the development and construction of technical...

FoundOcean has completed the offshore foundation grouting at Thornton Bank Offshore Wind Farm Phase II, 30km off the coast of Oostende, Belgium. FoundOcean was contracted to Geosea, the specialist piling...

The rate of data growth is climbing exponentially, thanks to new sensors, new social networks and new ways to create and capture data. In response, Oracle is tackling four issues...

The registration for World Dredging Congress XX (WODCON XX), to be held in the Square-Brussels Meeting Centre, Brussels, Belgium, from 3 to 7 June 2013 is now open via the...

UK-based OceanWise has established off-the-shelf marine mapping datasets that meet the needs of the most demanding applications. These datasets include raster charts, marine themes and the recently released marine themes...

Seamless coverage from land, to shallow water, to sea bottom Leica Geosystems and its subsidiary Airborne Hydrography AB (AHAB) develop and sell airborne Lidar survey systems for bathymetric and topographic...

Edward Davey, the UK's Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, travelled to Orkney in October 2012. During his two-day trip, the Lib-Dem Minister saw Scotrenewables Tidal Power Ltd’s...

Successful Workshop in Antwerp Harbour The workshop themed ‘Reference Frames and Geodesy in the North Sea’ attracted nearly 70 members of the Hydrographic Society Benelux who headed for the small...

The IADC Board has awarded the 2012 Safety Award to DEME NV for its implementation of a new company-wide safety awareness programme, CHILD. CHILD (Colleagues, Help Injuries to Leave DEME)...