Oceans'06 will be organized in Boston (MA, USA) from 18 September to 21 September 2006. The organisation expects to attract 2500 visitors for the keynote sessions, workshops and exhibitions. All...

Veripos has appointed Raymond Wong as regional business development manager responsible for sales and marketing of Differential GPS services for offshore users throughout Asia-Pacific regions extending from Russia, China and...

Continuing its initiative to deliver a complete Spatial ETL solution encompassing both raster and vector support, Safe Software has released FME 2006, that refines the authoring environment of the FME...

NovAtel Inc. has released its first production standard Galileo-ready receiver and antenna. NovAtel's new L1L5E5a receiver offers superior 16 channel tracking of GPS L1/L5, Galileo L1/E5a and SBAS signals in...

Navigational safety and political-economic considerations make it essential for port administrations and hydrographic services to have a prioritised survey programme. Finding criteria that reflect the importance of re-survey over a...

The National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK (NOC) has taken delivery of a Coda DA200 Geophysical Acquisition System for use with its numerous existing sensors, including boomer, chirp sub-bottom and...

HYDRO’06, the fifteenth international congress of the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS), took place at Provincial House, Antwerp, Belgium from 6th to 9th November 2006. The event attracted 270...

Bathymetric mapping remains incomplete in the Arctic and Southern Oceans. Some proposed International Polar Year activities could help improve the situation by collecting new soundings during vessel transits to and...

Hypack Inc. launched Hypack version 6.2, which succeeds version Hypack 4.3 A Gold. One of the improvements is the new Tin Model Program and a new Hardware program. The new...

This paper describes the development of a web spatial image server used for sharing huge sets of georeferenced coastal orthophotos on the web via an easy visualisation interface. Traditional cartography...