Underwater positioning with USBL can be accurate in favourable environments. However, it’s often perceived as less precise than land-based positioning. Maintaining high accuracy during mobilization and calibration is crucial. If...

Galileo has begun the delivery of its High Accuracy Service (HAS), as officially announced by Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market. He described HAS as “feeding a prosperous market...

Taking into account the increasing demand for autonomy in hydrography, this article examines the development of an innovative, small-sized subsea sensor fusion solution. This groundbreaking solution has the potential to...

Echoview Software has released Echoview 13, the latest update to the powerful hydroacoustic data processing software for water column research in both marine and freshwater environments. This latest release was...

Hydrographers are increasingly aware of the added value that a Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) scanner can bring to bathymetry survey operations. The Teledyne Optech Polaris Laser Scanner, for example,...

Family-run subsea acoustics experts Applied Acoustics recently launched a new acoustic positioning offering, which is their first combined Inertial Navigation (INS) and Ultra Short Base Line (USBL) system. The Pyxis...

To understand coastal change and anticipate what our future coast will look like, scientists carry out regular field surveys in the form of beach profiles and digital elevation models (DEMs)....

SeaTrac Systems has announced the sale and delivery of one of its SP-48 persistent uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) to an elite geosciences team at Princeton University. Working with long-time collaborator...

Capturing and measuring the environment in the Arctic and Antarctic is a particularly challenging job. The area of interest is often covered by a thick blanket of snow and ice,...

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...