dKart Editor 2.1 ReleasedThe new software version makes a next step towards improving efficiency of ENC production, validation and maintenance, providing additional tools for cartographic data exchange and deeper integration...

AHS Education Award 2006 The AHS president and Education Award Board are delighted to advise that there were sixteen applicants for the 2006 award. These included research proposals from New...

Integral components of a swathe bathymetry system are the motion and heading sensors. The current trend is to offer a system that combines both components in one package, either as...

It may look as though Europe, the USA and Canada, followed by Australasia, dominate the hydrographic world scene. But there must also be enormous potential in the area north of...

After working for eighteen years with the trailer department of a dredging company, Stef Mars started his own hydrographic survey company in 1985. Working on board of hopper trailer suction...

The hydrographic community has tumbled headlong into a data boom. Hundreds of single-beam soundings are now replaced by millions of high-resolution multi-beam swath soundings. This boom is not free from...

The Hydrographic Institute of Portugal (HIP) has been executing hydrographic surveys at the port of Sines since 1973 as part of successive contracts signed with the Port of Sines Authority....

Quality Positioning Services BV (QPS) based in Zeist, The Netherlands is an independent software design company specialising in integrated navigation and positioning software systems, and electronic chart production tools. More...

A novel collaboration between maritime Local Authorities in south-east England is providing important new information on the coastal region to aid future decisions concerning the management of the coast. The...

Laser scanning and bathymetric side-scan sonar represent the cutting edge of environmental survey technology. Over the last few years, we have tested the integration of these two methodologies, carrying out...